A 13-year-old girl with an intellectual disability went missing in Hamilton overnight.

A woman who was drink-driving with an unrestrained young child standing in the car has been slammed by police for her "appalling and distressing" actions.

A teenager trying to impress a girl threw a party that spiralled out of control after she posted an invitation to it on Facebook.

A "few quiets" with friends ended with several fights, bottles, fence palings being thrown at police and arrests as a Hamilton party spiralled out of control.

Staff at a Hamilton liquor have been assaulted during a robbery last night.

Police have stopped and ticketed several drivers speeding past schools this week - including a high school teacher and a father with his pre-school aged daughter in the back.

A baker who went missing in 1965 died the day he disappeared, a coroner has ruled.

Police commissioner Mike Bush has visited the officer shot in the foot while tackling a gunman in Hamilton earlier this week.

A man has been charged over a confrontation where a police officer was shot in Hamilton earlier this week.

Police are hailing an officer for his extreme bravery after he was shot while wrestling an armed man who attacked a woman in a carjacking bid outside a Hamilton supermarket yesterday.

Children may have been put at risk when they were transported in a car with a sawn-off shotgun concealed under a mat, police say.

Police say a woman managed to fight off a man who was possibly trying to abduct her in Hamilton.

It's been labelled a bogan town, a cow town, even the "chlamydia capital of NZ". But from today the city will celebrate 150 years of history

The wife of a former accountant, convicted of stealing millions from a family to fund a lavish lifestyle, played a role in her husband’s crimes, the Herald can reveal.

Fonterra is looking at laying off up to 110 workers at its Canpac packing operation, near Hamilton.

A baby being dangled outside a car window has distressed Hamilton police.

A woman undergoing chemotherapy says she felt humiliated after being turned away from a Hamilton casino because she didn't have a doctor's note saying she needed to wear a hat.

A Hamilton man accused of murdering his infant son can now be named.

Police are calling for witnesses to a fatal crash between a cyclist and courier van at an intersection near Hillcrest this morning.