Waikato

Three farms are now using start-up company Halter's cow collars that use sound and vibration to guide cows around the farm and to keep them contained, without the use of fences.

Plant and Food Research has developed an environmentally-friendly spray to help fend off the kiwifruit vine killing disease PSA.

A Māori Party candidate was one of four people arrested for trespassing while trying to stop survey work for a roading development in southern Hamilton today.

This time last election 500 people in Jacinda Ardern's home town of Morrinsville protested the treatment of farmers. Andrew McRae talks to some who where there to find out if feelings have changed.

A man has been arrested in relation to a series of incidents where eight vehicles were shot at in a rural area of Hamilton.

Traditional dairy farmers have the opportunity this month to learn from others who've taken the plunge into milking sheep. Sheep milk producer Maui Milk is running information sessions in the hope of…

The prison officers' union says there is at least one case of tuberculosis, or TB, in the Spring Hill prison in North Waikato.

Maria Lupton has New Zealand's only leech farm, with tens of thousands of the parasites in tanks on her Waikato property. She even takes them on holiday so she can respond quickly if a hospital needs…

Police have identified a body recovered from the Waikato River as that of a 23 year old man missing since August.

A man accused of robbing two banks and a business in Waikato, with a fake gun, has been arrested.

Plant and Food Research would like to empower the development of a much larger bumblebee industry in New Zealand. It has developed the technology to successfully breed bumblebees, now it wants…

Police investigating the murder of Sao Young have made two further arrests in connection with his death.