Pictures on Peter Jackson's Facebook profile give a glimpse into how the movie is being shot in 3D and reveal the film will break with nine decades of cinema tradition.

Next weekend Hamilton hosts ITM400, the biggest V8 Supercar event in the country. Susan Edmunds went to a meet at the Meremere dragway for an early whiff of V8 fever.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has cleared police in two incidents but found an officer's actions in a Waikato "undesirable".

Police have referred to the coroner the 2009 death of Hail-Sage McClutchie in suspicious circumstances from head injuries.

A man has claimed the million dollar ticket from the weekend's Lotto draw.

Police have released new images of a knife-wielding man who threatened a lone female assistant in a Hamilton sex shop last month.

When the on-track action at Hamilton's V8 Supercars cools off next weekend, ZZ Top will fire up the fans after dark.

Waitomo is world famous for its subterranean wonders but, as Anna Jones writes, there are plenty of treasures above ground too.

Men will see murder as cheaper than divorce following the Greg Meads sentence, Sensible Sentencing...

Two women who discovered they were both in a relationship with the same man and then ransacked his house and blackmailed him have been sentenced to 350 hours community work.

One motorist is dead and a man is lucky to be alive after two cars collided on a rural Waikato road, sending one vehicle somersaulting through the air and leaving the other impaled by fence posts.

Farmers are threatening to tear down the predator-proof fence that surrounds the Maungatautari wildlife sanctuary - once seen as a visionary collaboration

A devastating pig disease which broke out in the North Island in 2003 and crossed to the South Island in 2006 is still spreading, farmers say.

A road worker who died after he was run over by a tarseal spraying truck north-east of Hamilton on Thursday was today named by police as Graham Donald Bennie, 55, of Huntly.