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

Police are hunting a man who terrorised an elderly Hamilton couple in their home early this morning.

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

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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.

Police are speaking to the mother of two young children found home alone early today, surrounded by alcohol cans and a condom.

All five people in the car had been drinking and the driver said she lost control after being distracted by a passenger.

The identity of a woman at the centre of an alleged $1.4 million Waikato bank fraud has been revealed.

Police are believed to have tracked the movements in Waikato of two men who knew Carmen Thomas - at the time that her car was abandoned in Hamilton.

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