Waikato and West Coast Catchments Manager Grant Blackie said landowners collectively completed over 150 kilometres of fencing ...

The Waikato River Authority has successfully concluded its 2025 funding round, awarding $5.7 million to 26 projects aimed at ...

Emergency services were called to the crash between a car and a motorcycle on River Road about 7am, 1 October. A police ...

A motorcyclist has died in hospital after a Ngāruawāhia crash earlier this month. Police said on Saturday that 59-year-old ...

One man has died and two others are in hospital after a boat overturned in Port Waikato on Saturday morning. Police said emergency services received reports of three people in the water after a boat ...

Jim Bolger often stood up to his own team when overseeing the fractious process that led to a Treaty settlement, a Ngāi Tahu ...

A young dad was playing in the Waikato River with his 3-year-old son when he was swept under and didn’t resurface. It was early on the summer evening when Nathan Eketone-Mahara, 29, had his son on his ...

Mahara, 29, was a strong swimmer who was familiar with the area but he got into trouble in the strong current, disappearing under water while swimming with his young son, who was rescued.

An emergency centre has been set up and homes are under threat from rising rivers with residents starting to self-evacuate as the rain continues to drench ...