Four of the best parks and outdoor spaces to take your kids.

The biggest pumpkin Grace Lusty has grown weighed in at a whopping 96kg.

A Hamilton man says he's no hero but is grateful for the recognition he has received after he saved a woman being mauled by her dog.

A Hamilton woman who was mauled by her own dog is praising the bravery of a passing stranger who she says saved her life.

A car's early morning plough through a wooden fence and subsequent crash into a Hamilton home had a resident thinking "something must have blown over" outside.

A passer-by is being hailed a hero after he jumped over a fence and repeatedly whacked a dog with a broom stick to stop it from attacking its owner.

Police have been on the hunt overnight for three men, thought to be involved in a violent robbery in Hamilton.

A woman who was drink-driving with an unrestrained young child standing in the car has been slammed by police for her "appalling and distressing" actions.

A teenager trying to impress a girl threw a party that spiralled out of control after she posted an invitation to it on Facebook.

A "few quiets" with friends ended with several fights, bottles, fence palings being thrown at police and arrests as a Hamilton party spiralled out of control.

Staff at a Hamilton liquor have been assaulted during a robbery last night.

Police have stopped and ticketed several drivers speeding past schools this week - including a high school teacher and a father with his pre-school aged daughter in the back.

A man has been charged over a confrontation where a police officer was shot in Hamilton earlier this week.

Police are hailing an officer for his extreme bravery after he was shot while wrestling an armed man who attacked a woman in a carjacking bid outside a Hamilton supermarket yesterday.

Children may have been put at risk when they were transported in a car with a sawn-off shotgun concealed under a mat, police say.

Police say a woman managed to fight off a man who was possibly trying to abduct her in Hamilton.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has taken aim at dirty politics today, shortly after he physically shoved a heckler off a stage in Hamilton.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

It's been labelled a bogan town, a cow town, even the "chlamydia capital of NZ". But from today the city will celebrate 150 years of history

The wife of a former accountant, convicted of stealing millions from a family to fund a lavish lifestyle, played a role in her husband’s crimes, the Herald can reveal.