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

The male calf arrived in June, bringing the total number of white rhinos at the zoo to six.

A woman was indecently assaulted by an intruder with a long, bushy and unkempt beard as she slept in her Hamilton home early this morning.

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

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.

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.

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.

Authorities are searching for a white or light-coloured hatchback car thought to be travelling with the Nissan Skyline involved in a the fatal crash in Hamilton.

The families of the four young people who died in a horror crash near Hamilton are beginning to pay tribute to their loved ones.

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

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