Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.

A supermarket baker hid after thieves drove their car through the front of the store to steal a few boxes of beer.

Police yesterday raided a Hamilton house for bricks of gold and foreign banknotes worth $1 million in an international seizure operation.

Inmate Latu Kepu has been sentenced to six years and four months for the manslaughter of a Waikato prison guard.

A Hamilton woman who allegedly left her two toddlers at home alone while she went out for several hours has appeared in court.

The Crafar farming family has lost its appeal against convictions and sentences for dirty dairying practices on a Waikato dairy farm.

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Waikato residents renewed their calls for a commuter rail service between Hamilton and Auckland with staged sit ins at train stations on Saturday.

Police have charged a 22-year-old mother in relation to an alleged child abandonment incident this morning.