Firefighters commandeered a private boat to carry out the rescue of two people from the Waikato River.

Two car crashes this evening in the North Island have left three people injured, two of them seriously.

Waipa District Council has helped stretch the Waikato patrolled lifeguard season after contributing $10,000 to the service after Hamilton City Council pulled all of its funding.

A woman had to be rescued by a police search and rescue team after she was left behind by friends during a bush walk.

Eastern Waikato police have seized firearms, drugs and what appeared to be a dismantled meth lab in two Hauraki properties.

A Waikato road blocked when a stock truck crashed near Pukeatua has re-opened.

A Waikato motorist has had a miraculous escape after a collision with a truck that saw it mount the front of her car.

A woman's nine-year labour of love has transformed an old rural school into a sports fanatic's dream home.

Meander down to the beach, dig yourself a hole and wallow in the thermal water, says Sarah Ell.

Police are investigating after the body was discovered near Huntly.

Firefighters have been called to a fire at Spring Hill Prison in the Waikato.

The unit crashed on State Highway 29, 2km east of the intersection of Rapurapu and Tepoi roads, on the Matamata side of the hill.

Two men suffered serious injuries in separate motorbike crashes in Waikato yesterday.

Taupo is a great playground for thrillseekers, finds Shandelle Battersby.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.

The Registrar of Companies is making the rare bid of extending the statutory company director ban of a convicted Waikato fraudster to 10 years due to the seriousness of his offending.

A man charged with the arson of a rural Waikato school has appeared in court.

She was driving a bus-load of students to school when police pulled her over.

Crash investigators mapping out the scene of a fatal collision overnight had a close call today as a distracted speeding driver stopped just short of the cordon.

Waikato SPCA is subject to a pending investigation by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in relation to "suspected offending under the Animal Welfare Act".

Emergency services are currently at Gordonton Road, also known as State Highway 1B, in the Waikato, where a person has died at the scene following the collision.

A faulty dryer caused a fire in a rural Waikato home last night but it's appliance accomplice - the handy washing machine - helped douse the flames.

A fire at a rural Waikato school is being treated as suspicious, the second arson of a school in the region in a week.

Foul play was not to blame for the death of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River yesterday morning, police say.

Firefighters evacuated 60 children from a North Island school and early childhood centre this morning, after localised downpours hit the region.

Police have identified a body found in the Waikato River this morning but will not release the name of the 38-year-old man until their family are all informed.

A 488ha South Waikato rural property sold at auction last week for $5.25 million, says PGG Wrightson Real Estate.

A day after the Government pushed new health and safety legislation through Parliament a sharemilker died in a quad bike accident on a Waikato property.

A young man who died in a crash in the Waikato last night was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

A person is dead after a quad bike accident on a farm in Waikato this morning.