Multiple fire trucks attend building blaze in Hamilton

Four recycling strikes and you're out for Hauraki residents' bins

Contamination levels across the district have risen to approximately 27%, a sharp rise from a 3% rate pre-Covid.

'You've got the whole lot!': Huntly man's surprise Lotto win

The winner of the $1 million Lotto draw didn't know he was the recipient of all four prizes until he read a news story, and checked his ticket.

Missing Cambridge cat turns up 630km away on Canterbury farm

A tortoiseshell cat missing from Cambridge for a year has turned up on a North Canterbury farm, after apparently crossing Cook Strait alone.

Hamilton accountant charged over alleged $1.3m theft from clients

David Waine appeared in Hamilton District Court on Wednesday on three charges of theft by a person in a special relationship and one of false accounting.