A Hamilton woman says her two children are her "saviours" after they stepped in to stop a bloody and vicious attack by her estranged husband.

Police say the girls missing since Sunday have been found safe and well.

Super City property buyers snaffle almost 20 per cent of June home sales in Hamilton and hit Tauranga and Whangarei markets.

Aleesha Tait had just finished her morning shift on a farm and was heading home for lunch when her farm bike and a car collided in Waikato.

Nick Marshall's shocked partner has come out swinging against police after officers shot him dead during an armed raid.

Police say the Hamilton man who was shot dead last night picked up a long-barrelled firearm and cocked it "in very close proximity" to officers.

A man shot dead by police during a search in Hamilton last night had presented a firearm police have revealed.

The only survivor of a Hamilton crash which killed four others is home and on the road to recovery.

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

Hamilton Zoo has welcomed a male white rhino calf following his mother's 16-month pregnancy.

Driving drunk wasn't the only bad decision a Waikato woman made - she also rear ended a cop car at a fast food drive-through before verbally abusing an officer.

First Union assistant general secretary Karl Andersen says the driver of a recycling truck is not to blame for the death of a homeless man.

The body found in cardboard bales has been identified as Te Awamutu father-of-three Daniel Bindner.

A blessing is to be held on the site of the Frankton cardboard processing factory where a body of man was found in a cardboard bale.

Staff at a Hamilton cardboard processing have been left "freaked out" after discovering body parts in a cardboard bale.

Police make major breakthrough into the crash which killed four people near Hamilton Airport on Friday night.

The driver of a red car who may hold information into a crash which claimed four young lives came forward after an appeal was made.

Part of a roof has collapsed on a section of a building on Victoria St, Hamilton, next to Centre Place Mall.

Waikato police say they are investigating whether two cars were racing each other and whether an altercation took place shortly before the fatal crash.

Truck driver blamed for fatal train crash.

Hamilton authorities are on the hunt for an armed fugitive on the run with his toddler in tow.

A 17-year-old could face three years imprisonment or a $50,000 fine if found guilty.

Two shootings in one Hamilton street.

A Waikato woman has admitted stealing $750,000 from her employer over five years.

A Hamilton man facing a charge over an alleged shooting in the city on Thursday plans to fight the charge.

A Hamilton man who was jailed for crashing into a group of cyclists, killing one, is back before the courts again, this time for assaulting his partner on two occasions.

Near-record crowds flocked to Fieldays near Hamilton, making it one of the biggest years in the event's history.

Paul Olsen from Opiki won only one challenge throughout the week, but he walked out a winner.

Hamilton police are looking for Angelo Wilson. Police said Wilson had a history of violence. He had a number of contacts in the Melville area.

Armed and dangerous man with links to the Mongrel Mob is being sought after a 14-year-old boy was shot and injured last night in Hamilton.