A woman who was drink-driving with an unrestrained young child standing in the car has been slammed by police for her "appalling and distressing" actions.

A teenager trying to impress a girl threw a party that spiralled out of control after she posted an invitation to it on Facebook.

A "few quiets" with friends ended with several fights, bottles, fence palings being thrown at police and arrests as a Hamilton party spiralled out of control.

Staff at a Hamilton liquor have been assaulted during a robbery last night.

Police have stopped and ticketed several drivers speeding past schools this week - including a high school teacher and a father with his pre-school aged daughter in the back.

A baker who went missing in 1965 died the day he disappeared, a coroner has ruled.

Police commissioner Mike Bush has visited the officer shot in the foot while tackling a gunman in Hamilton earlier this week.

Police are hailing an officer for his extreme bravery after he was shot while wrestling an armed man who attacked a woman in a carjacking bid outside a Hamilton supermarket yesterday.

Children may have been put at risk when they were transported in a car with a sawn-off shotgun concealed under a mat, police say.

Police say a woman managed to fight off a man who was possibly trying to abduct her in Hamilton.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has taken aim at dirty politics today, shortly after he physically shoved a heckler off a stage in Hamilton.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

It's been labelled a bogan town, a cow town, even the "chlamydia capital of NZ". But from today the city will celebrate 150 years of history

The wife of a former accountant, convicted of stealing millions from a family to fund a lavish lifestyle, played a role in her husband’s crimes, the Herald can reveal.

Fonterra is looking at laying off up to 110 workers at its Canpac packing operation, near Hamilton.

A baby being dangled outside a car window has distressed Hamilton police.

A woman undergoing chemotherapy says she felt humiliated after being turned away from a Hamilton casino because she didn't have a doctor's note saying she needed to wear a hat.

A Hamilton man accused of murdering his infant son can now be named.

Police are calling for witnesses to a fatal crash between a cyclist and courier van at an intersection near Hillcrest this morning.

Sports, cultural events, school trips and dances have been cancelled or postponed in some Waikato schools after an outbreak of the measles.

Small town New Zealand does wonderful and whacky to keep up our winter spirits.

Tonight's sell-out test between the All Blacks and England is predicted to draw one of the biggest event crowds Hamilton has ever experienced, bar owners say.