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

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

A 46-year-old Tokoroa woman has died after being hit by a truck and trailer unit while walking along State Highway 1 at Kinleith in

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

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.

Police have recovered three firearms and a significant amount of ammunition from addresses in Tokoroa.

Two house fires in Tokoroa in the early hours of this morning are being treated as suspicious.

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

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.

Protesters gathered this morning to rally against the selling of legal highs.

Nearly one year on since road worker George Taiaroa was gunned down, police say they have made "positive steps" despite not yet making any arrests.

A man is dead after the car he was in crashed so violently that the engine was thrown 10 metres from the vehicle.

Tokoroa police are appealing for help in relation to a serious assault on a local couple.