Inmate Latu Kepu has been sentenced to six years and four months for the manslaughter of a Waikato prison guard.

A Hamilton woman who allegedly left her two toddlers at home alone while she went out for several hours has appeared in court.

The Crafar farming family has lost its appeal against convictions and sentences for dirty dairying practices on a Waikato dairy farm.

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Police have charged a 22-year-old mother in relation to an alleged child abandonment incident this morning.

Police are speaking to the mother of two young children found home alone early today, surrounded by alcohol cans and a condom.

All five people in the car had been drinking and the driver said she lost control after being distracted by a passenger.

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The identity of a woman at the centre of an alleged $1.4 million Waikato bank fraud has been revealed.

Police are believed to have tracked the movements in Waikato of two men who knew Carmen Thomas - at the time that her car was abandoned in Hamilton.

Bic Runga is returning to the live stage as the support act for Leonard Cohen's tour in late October.