Waikato

FENZ says 14 houses were evacuated as a precaution but had since returned.

Police say they were called to Winstone Avenue in the suburb of Chartwell at about 5am after reports of gunshots.

In a physical, low scoring game, Damian McKenzie was the difference for the visitors

A New Zealand university is using facial recognition on students at one of its overseas campuses in China.

Staff says it's "a sad and upsetting" day for workers and the town.

The government and the Reserve Bank came to a major realisation too late, experts say.

A data entrepreneur says facial recognition could be used in classrooms to call the roll.

Hamilton's recent run of hot days likely beats anything the city has experienced since temperature records began, says a climate scientist.

A Hamilton councillor says the government's Local Government Water Services Bill has failed at providing local authorities with any certainty when it comes to water, and left them feeling like an…

Turipapa Tukere died after an altercation on 27 December.

Police have reported another death after a second single-vehicle crash a little more than 12 hours after an earlier fatal crash was reported in Ngāhinapouri, southwest of Hamilton.

Edmondson is accused of murdering a pig hunter and attempting to murder another.

Three people have died and commuters have been warned of delays in Auckland, Waikato and Napier, after a day of crashes and a police incident involving the Armed Offenders Squad.

The remains of a tramper who was missing in the Pureora Forest near Lake Taupō since March last year have been found.

A Waikato man with stage three lung cancer is hoping to re-home 40 rescued cats he can no longer look after. Audio

Emergency services were called to a Hamilton address overnight.

The farm will stretch over 182 hectares, but the panels will be fairly unobtrusive, company says.

The damage could have been much worse, were it not for the healthy state of the peatland - but it could still take years to recover.