A jury deliberating the fate of a Northern Districts cricketer's rape allegation will resume tomorrow after failing to reach a verdict today.

Watch NZH Focus: New Zealand house values have just exceeded $600,000 for the first time while Auckland values climbed towards $1 million.

Labour has selected Jamie Strange to try to win back Hamilton East in 2017.

A silver and white car linked to the shooting of a 14-year-old boy in June has been recovered.

The Northern Districts cricketer on trial for rape has seen claims and counter claims in court today about the events leading up to .

Police are seeking a car in relation to the alleged attempted murder of a teenage boy in Hamilton. Police have identified a silver

Northern Districts cricketer on trial for rape says the complainant was dressed "provocatively" the night the alleged incident happened.

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".

Witness, who has known fast bowler Scott Kuggeleijn for most of his life, says what he originally told police was "a mistake" or "misinterpreted".

The woman who alleges she was raped by a Northern Districts cricket player has no memory of some of the events of the night, a jury has heard.

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

Tax evader sentenced for repeatedly failing to pay Inland Revenue.

A Whangamata man found guilty of the murder of his friend has been jailed for a minimum of 10 years.

Teacher admits serious misconduct after nine years of complaints.

A Hamilton woman says her two children are her "saviours" after they stepped in to stop a bloody and vicious attack by her estranged husband.

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.

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.

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

A 9-year-old Hamilton boy hid in his room armed with a Nerf gun as a thief took his birthday present while his mum was out.

A man brandishing a metal hammer attacked a woman inside her car after she stopped on the side of the road to adjust her radio, police say.

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.

A blessing is to be held on the site of the Frankton cardboard processing factory where a body of man was found in a cardboard bale.

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.