Waikato

Country Life heads out with a vet to give farms dogs their annual once-over and gets up close and personal with rams to see if they're in good shape for mating.

Waste Management New Zealand has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars after a man's arm was caught in a tyre shredder that had no guarding.

An alert about the potential presence of a toxic chemical due to a months-long landfill fire has put a Waikato grandmother off having her family over to visit.

Authorities are asking pregnant and breastfeeding women to move temporarily outside of an area where a fire has been burning near Hamilton.

A long-lasting underground fire at a Waikato dump was arson, made worse by the sabotage of earthmoving equipment used to fight it, claims the dump's owner.

An environment court decision has ruled in favour of more protection of the endangered long-tailed bats - pekapeka - living along the Waikato River.

The owner of a Waikato rubbish dump that has been on fire for months has been ordered to put a dirt cap on it.

The driver of a bus which crashed and killed an 11-year-old girl has admitted to falsifying information and changing his story about how he was driving.

A long-burning, foul-smelling underground fire at a Waikato rubbish dump has forced the creation of a rare multi-agency group.

It's not unusual for local council bosses and mayors to try to control what councillors say when the media come calling. But one council’s elected representatives have created a code of conduct…

A person has died after they were hit by a car in Tokoroa last night.

A statue of New Zealand's second female Cabinet minister and a founder of children's health camps will be unveiled in Hamilton this morning.

A Waikato milking machine firm is selling an increasing number of parlours for sheep and goat milking both in NZ and off shore.

A woman has died after a mountain biking accident south-west of Hamilton yesterday morning.