Next weekend Hamilton hosts ITM400, the biggest V8 Supercar event in the country. Susan Edmunds went to a meet at the Meremere dragway for an early whiff of V8 fever.

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

When the on-track action at Hamilton's V8 Supercars cools off next weekend, ZZ Top will fire up the fans after dark.

There's a new mayor and new promoter, now all that's needed are spectators for the Waikato Supercar event.

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.