An English teenager, in New Zealand on his OE, has admitted killing two people and injuring four others in a car crash near Matamata earlier this year.

Catherine Matson was killed near Matamata in an apparent hit-and-run early yesterday.

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Well-drawn Sierra Nevada could justify Otto's Derby aspirations.

Just how influential are the movies in transforming audiences into potential tourists?

Police are treating as suspicious the death of a man who collapsed and suffered a head injury last night in Matamata after reports of an altercation.

Hobbiton has put Matamata on the map, but with production of The Hobbit shifting overseas, the town's future as a tourist hub is in jeopardy.

Greg Meads enjoyed his final months of freedom in a plush beachfront home with another woman before being convicted of murder.

Kimberley White remembers her stepfather Greg Meads enforcing silent meals at the family dinner table as he watched television.

A shooting victim told her husband days before her death that she wanted to move out of their home and move on with her life, a court heard.

The furore over The Hobbit is the normal process of a union trying to talk to an employer who is refusing to talk back, says actor and director Ian Mune.

Kerry and Lynne Martin are unsure about swimming in Samoa after losing their two daughters in the tsunami.

A grieving dad has told how he cradled his 10-year-old daughter in his arms as she passed away from an asthma attack.