At least 10 people have been hurt, one critically and three seriously, after five serious crashes on Waikato and Bay of Plenty roads today.

Judge sensed Arjay Paraku-Harris was worth taking a gamble on - but it would come with a catch.

The teacher has resigned from her role and been censured by the Education Council's Disciplinary Tribunal.

Two Kiwis are aboard a fishing trawler missing off the coast of Queensland.

Stolen cars and police pursuits after a group of teens create havoc on a road trip from Auckland.

Family spokesman Patrick Tavai said there were still issues around retrieving the body and waiting for the coroner's report.

Several crashes around the country today, three dead, at least five injured.

Emergency services are at the scene in Tokoroa where a car has hit a wall. A Fire Service shift manager said one car went into a

Three schools in Tokoroa have been vandalised overnight, with up to half the windows at some schools being smashed. It is understood

Three men and a 13-year-old boy have been arrested after a 60 strong brawl in Tokoroa which saw a teenage boy seriously injured.

A supermarket security guard has been hit by a car as two alleged shoplifters tried to make a get away. A police spokeswoman said

A gaping chasm has appeared in a south Waikato road as councils across the North Island begin to take stock of damage in the wake of the weekend's storm.

Tokoroa job went viral in February but no one suitable has come forward.

Two next-door neighbours generations apart had an unusual introduction when one pulled the other from a house fire in Tokoroa.

An inquest is under way into the death of forestry worker Charles Finlay, with questions around the decision by WorkSafe not to lay charges,

A man dragged from the garage of his Tokoroa property after his house caught fire has died.

A twin boy was killed trying to escape a car as it rolled backwards down a steep farm driveway near Tokoroa, police say.

A child has been removed from a plastic pipe in a Tokoroa playground by firefighters this morning.

The crash between a motorbike and car happened at 3.05pm at the intersection of Pateke Place and Kereru St.

An elderly man is in hospital after three men allegedly pushed their way inside his Tokoroa home last night.

Eleven-year-old Jaida Maxwell-Davies' three cricket-mad brothers are often by her side during hospital visits. Yesterday, they got to meet their heroes.

The girl who almost choked to death in a horror karting incident remains in Starship hospital.

A woman frantically chopped off a girl's hair to save her life, after the girl's hair became tangled in the wheels of a kart when playing with a school friend.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

Three people have died and one is critically injured following a collision between a car and a logging truck in south Waikato this afternoon.

Two early childhood teachers admitted to mistreating young children.

The woman spoken to by police after a 20-year-old man was critically injured by a car in Tokoroa, has been charged with assault with a weapon.

A man has been critically injured after being struck by a car in Tokoroa today.

Auckland house prices have surged so much that the cost of just one bedroom in the suburb of Remuera is more than four times the price of an entire house in Tokoroa.