Waikato

Grass versus tarseal. A stoush has broken out over plans to turn a feature lawn at the Hamilton Gardens into a carpark.

The Hamilton City Council has launched its first car-share scheme, and it says one car-share is equivalent to taking six to 10 cars off the road.

Country Life's Carol Stiles has been out sniffing for truffles. It was no surprise to learn Indi the truffle dog had a better nose! The cocker spaniel whizzed around 146 trees at a truffiere near…

An investigation into the poisoning of cattle with 1080 on a King Country farm a year ago still has not been completed, leaving the owners angry.

While eight candidates are vying for the top job in Hamilton, only three appear to be front-runners.

Thirteen cases of measles have now been confirmed in the Waikato, 40 in Northland and fears of an outbreak in prison.

A fire drill at Waikato Hospital has exposed issues similar to those the hospital knew about eight years ago, described then as "significant systematic weakness" in the alarm system.

More than 120 staff have been laid off at two construction companies now in liquidation, while staff are still on the job at a crane hire company now in receivership.

Norwegian Fjord horses were domesticated about 4000 years ago and were famously used by the Vikings as war mounts in their travels to Scotland and Iceland. There's a small herd in New Zealand…

A man on life parole has been sent back to prison for the death of a man whose body was found at McLaren Falls in July last year.

Top doctors in Waikato and Northland are calling for a national immunisation programme against measles urgently.

The small King Country town of Otorohanga has a sparkling new medical facility. Nearly every cent needed for the $3.4 million building was raised by the community.

The Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board has lifted the rahui on parts of Lake Taupō and the upper Waikato River.

The mental health patient whose body was found in the Waikato River yesterday had been on unescorted leave from Waikato Hospital.