A woman has been charged with kidnapping after allegedly trying to make off with a 10-year-old boy near a Hamilton school yesterday.

A Hamilton radio personality - sick of his fiance being leered at and heckled - wants action to address antisocial behaviour in the central city's plaza.

The free lessons will be offered once a year to Tauranga and Hamilton AA members, who can use them themselves or pass them on to a person of choice.

Neighbours have described being woken by screaming, then stepping out into the night to see a young man yelling "He's dead, he's dead".

Police are working to identify a person found dead after a house fire in Hamilton today.

Liz Light visits Fieldays, the biggest, fattest farmers' market in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hamilton looks likely to remove fluoride from its water in a vote from which at least five city councillors say they will abstain.

Two nurses were attacked by a knife-wielding man as they sat in a car outside Waikato Hospital last night.

Three men have been arrested in connection with an alleged home invasion in which a Hamilton man was brutally beaten.

A stolen car sought by police in connection with an assault ploughed into a large road sign pole in Hamilton, critically injuring a teenager.

The number of "spin doctors" at Hamilton City Council has increased in the past two years while six other positions in the communications unit have disappeared.

Rotorua beneficiaries advocate Paul Blair has again appealed to the Court of Appeal, claiming he was wrongly convicted on cannabis charges.

A man shot at a Hamilton property last night is likely to undergo surgery later today as police try to establish whether there could be a link to a wanted offender's vehicle.

Waikato police have found a missing teenage girl who failed to return from school in Hamilton yesterday.

Human error put a Hamilton Zoo keeper at risk from a female tiger, an investigation by the Ministry of Primary Industries has found.

UPDATED Up to 200 drunken youths attacked an ambulance and forced a Hamilton events centre into lockdown after a Facebook party got out of hand.

A Hamilton supermarket worker went beyond his job description by chasing a wallet thief for several kilometres and helping in his arrest.

Hot air balloons from all around the world are rising into the skies above Hamilton from six parks around the city today.

A woman who collapsed and died while giving a breath test in a booze bus was so stressed by the situation it set off an arrhythmia in her heart, an inquest has heard.