They were brought together by death, but yesterday a Hamilton couple declared their undying love for each other.

A man allegedly tried to get a teenage girl who was walking to school into his vehicle.

A Waikato bar and a service station were held up at gunpoint just minutes apart overnight.

A mother-of-four children was "in the grips of an extended drinking binge" when her four young children were found walking along a busy Hamilton street on their own.

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A former Hamilton IRD employee has admitted not paying any tax or PAYE over a five year period.

A 14-year-old girl is in hospital after crashing a stolen car into a lamp post in Hamilton's CBD.

A woman who went missing on her bus journey from Wellington to Hamilton has been found safe in Levin.

A caregiver allegedly caught on covert camera footage hitting and slapping an elderly man in a rest home has been charged with assault.

A Hamilton Sikh and council candidate says he and his family are shocked and disgusted after his billboard was tagged with the word "Isis".

The vehicle was brought to a stop when road spikes were laid on Wairere Dr at 4.20am.

Distressed kayaker who sparked a search on the Waikato River last night calls police to say he is alive.

Police are searching for a man who is believed to have been in a kayak without a paddle.

A man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after a pylon collapsed where a new pole is being put in for an expressway.

A Waikato woman was arrested in October and accused of creating fake CVs so that Filipinos could work in New Zealand.

An employee sustained serious burns to his calves and arm when the adhesive he was using caught fire.

The establishment of The Rail Opportunity Network (TRON) to re-examine the possibility of a commuter rail line from Hamilton to Auckland

An 8-year-old hit by a car in Hamilton picked himself up and continued walking to school.

Neil Rendle has his best friend - and a TV ad - to thank for saving his life.

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A witness in the rape trial involving a Northern Districts cricketer claims the alleged victim told him that she hadn't been raped and that she only wanted to "scare him".

About 40 households in a remote area of Waikato have been without access to a reliable phone line for weeks.

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.