An elderly man is in hospital after three men allegedly pushed their way inside his Tokoroa home last night.

Eleven-year-old Jaida Maxwell-Davies' three cricket-mad brothers are often by her side during hospital visits. Yesterday, they got to meet their heroes.

The girl who almost choked to death in a horror karting incident remains in Starship hospital.

A woman frantically chopped off a girl's hair to save her life, after the girl's hair became tangled in the wheels of a kart when playing with a school friend.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

Three people have died and one is critically injured following a collision between a car and a logging truck in south Waikato this afternoon.

Two early childhood teachers admitted to mistreating young children.

The woman spoken to by police after a 20-year-old man was critically injured by a car in Tokoroa, has been charged with assault with a weapon.

Protesters gathered this morning to rally against the selling of legal highs.

Nearly one year on since road worker George Taiaroa was gunned down, police say they have made "positive steps" despite not yet making any arrests.

A man is dead after the car he was in crashed so violently that the engine was thrown 10 metres from the vehicle.

Tokoroa police are appealing for help in relation to a serious assault on a local couple.

A 200 metre area in Tokoroa has been cordoned of by police and the Fire Service, after contractors burst a gas main.

An elderly man who clung to bushes for six hours this morning after crashing his mobility scooter down a steep bank believes rescuers reached him just in time.

Tokoroa's talking poles tell Elisabeth Easther stories.

A blaze which tore through a house and car in Tokoroa this morning is being treated as suspicious.

A Rotorua man who was on the scene within seconds of a road worker being shot dead near Tokoroa says the victim was found with a hole in his head.

A man has been shot and killed this afternoon in a forestry area at Kinleith, near Tokoroa, with police launching a homicide inquiry.

A Tokoroa dog on death row for more than two years with a bill nearing $80,000 in upkeep and legal costs has been sentenced to death.

The family of the woman found dead along with her partner and three children in the wreckage of their crashed car near Tokoroa have spoken of their grief.

The two Indian men who were killed in a crash near Tokoroa yesterday have been named as a father and son from Jharkhand in eastern India.

A 3-week-old boy died with four members of his family in a crash in the Waikato - and may have lain in the wreckage since Sunday night.

Police have named a family of five killed in a Waikato crash, whose bodies were found today, shortly after another fatal accident in the region.

A post-mortem is underway on a body found in a burnt out car in forest between Taupo and Tokoroa yesterday.