A 200 metre area in Tokoroa has been cordoned of by police and the Fire Service, after contractors burst a gas main.

An elderly man who clung to bushes for six hours this morning after crashing his mobility scooter down a steep bank believes rescuers reached him just in time.

Tokoroa's talking poles tell Elisabeth Easther stories.

A blaze which tore through a house and car in Tokoroa this morning is being treated as suspicious.

A Rotorua man who was on the scene within seconds of a road worker being shot dead near Tokoroa says the victim was found with a hole in his head.

The family of a roadworker gunned down on an isolated South Waikato road were last night grieving for a cheeky, lovely and gentle man.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of road worker George Taiaroa near Tokoroa yesterday say no one heard gun shots.

A man has been shot and killed this afternoon in a forestry area at Kinleith, near Tokoroa, with police launching a homicide inquiry.

The family of the woman found dead along with her partner and three children in the wreckage of their crashed car near Tokoroa have spoken of their grief.

The two Indian men who were killed in a crash near Tokoroa yesterday have been named as a father and son from Jharkhand in eastern India.

A 3-week-old boy died with four members of his family in a crash in the Waikato - and may have lain in the wreckage since Sunday night.

Police have named a family of five killed in a Waikato crash, whose bodies were found today, shortly after another fatal accident in the region.

A post-mortem is underway on a body found in a burnt out car in forest between Taupo and Tokoroa yesterday.

Bob Gabolinscy never realised his forehead was streaming with blood after a group of young men attacked him with a pack of pre-mixed drinks outside his home late at night. He was too worried about rescuing his wife Margaret.