Declan O'Donnell has been revealed as the rugby sevens star accused of assaulting two men in a Hamilton pub brawl.

Police have released new images of a knife-wielding man who threatened a lone female assistant in a Hamilton sex shop last month.

Firefighter Merv Neil has won a New Zealand Bravery Award for his fearless work in the Waikato coolstore fire.

Text messages Matamata horse breeder Greg Meads unloaded from his wife Helen's cellphone led him to believe she intended to be difficult about their separation, his murder trial was told today.

Life is cheap, said the father of slain Matamata woman Helen Meads, reacting to the 11-year non-parole period that Justice Christopher Allan, in the High Court in Hamilton, imposed on Gregory Meads today when sentencing him...

Two women who discovered they were both in a relationship with the same man and then ransacked his house and blackmailed him have been sentenced to 350 hours community work.

A road worker who died after he was run over by a tarseal spraying truck north-east of Hamilton on Thursday was today named by police as Graham Donald Bennie, 55, of Huntly.

All Blacks winger Joe Rokocoko has been reinstated to the Blues' starting team to play the Chiefs on Saturday.

Read the tributes from Hollywood legends to Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died overnight, aged 79.