Bruce Honore and his wife Meri had been at the Cambridge motocross track cheering on their 8-year-old grandson when a bike flew across the barrier.

The Hamilton City Council has postponed its first court appearance in relation to its prosecution after of one of its zoo keepers was mauled by a tiger.

Fleeing gang members hurled onions and a glass chopping board at police during a high-speed pursuit through the Waikato.

She's too young to realise it yet, but 7-year-old Elyse Brown is helping her dad, Heath, keep it together.

Pirongia is Maori for "like a bad smell" although Pirongia is pretty and not at all smelly.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

A 20-year-old man remains in hospital today after being hit in the mouth by an exploding air freshener.

Waikato police are praising the actions of motorists who dobbed in a truck driver seen swerving all over a state highway.

Waihi police investigating the break-in at the town's Mobil service station, the fourth business to be targeted in Eastern Waikato over the past two days.

Two aggravated robberies which occurred within minutes of each other in the Waikato are not linked, police say.

A motorcyclist has died after striking a road barrier on State Highway One in the Waikato this morning.

An alleged fake Waikato District Health Board psychiatrist has been further remanded on new charges after vowing to prove his innocence.

A Waikato rural policing review has had to consider how to deal with the influx of Aucklanders moving to the region.

The father of a man who was found dead in the Waikato River has lashed out at a mental health facility following the escape of two more men.

The family of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River last week claim he was the victim of "medical and bureaucratic malpractice".

Waikato's Ukrainian community, supported by the region's European community gathered in Hamilton for a protest on Saturday. At the protest, they sang the Ukrainian National Anthem "Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia" - "The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished". Video / Danielle Zollickhofer