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".

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

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.

Nick Marshall's shocked partner has come out swinging against police after officers shot him dead during an armed raid.

Police say the Hamilton man who was shot dead last night picked up a long-barrelled firearm and cocked it "in very close proximity" to officers.

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.

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.

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.

The driver of a red car who may hold information into a crash which claimed four young lives came forward after an appeal was made.

Part of a roof has collapsed on a section of a building on Victoria St, Hamilton, next to Centre Place Mall.

Authorities are searching for a white or light-coloured hatchback car thought to be travelling with the Nissan Skyline involved in a the fatal crash in Hamilton.

Hamilton authorities are on the hunt for an armed fugitive on the run with his toddler in tow.

A 17-year-old could face three years imprisonment or a $50,000 fine if found guilty.

A Hamilton man facing a charge over an alleged shooting in the city on Thursday plans to fight the charge.

Near-record crowds flocked to Fieldays near Hamilton, making it one of the biggest years in the event's history.

Hamilton police are looking for Angelo Wilson. Police said Wilson had a history of violence. He had a number of contacts in the Melville area.

Armed and dangerous man with links to the Mongrel Mob is being sought after a 14-year-old boy was shot and injured last night in Hamilton.

Police are looking for a man in a white car over shooting of 17-year-old boy in Hamilton.

A 17-year-old boy has been shot on a street in Hamilton, in what is now the third shooting incident on the same street in sixteen months.

Police called after gun fired at a party.

Do not approach, police warn.

The family of a zookeeper killed by a tiger at Hamilton Zoo last year are horrified a letter sent to Australasian zoos appears to blame the keeper for her death.