Police were delivering flyers about missing woman Shelly Crooks today in Punakaiki and nearby Fox River.

A wife watched in horror as her husband's truck bounced off the road, flipped and then skidded about 30m on its side as smoked poured from it.

A large truck has rolled near Tokoroa, blocking a lane on State Highway 1 and causing delays.

Band expected backlash over performance - and got it, says Kiwi.

District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.

Waikato District Health Board is postponing around 500 patients' appointments because of the strike.

Yesterday the Police Search and Rescue Dive Squad spent more than eight hours unsuccessfully searching the depths of Lake Rotoiti for the man.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman armed with a knife robbed a store.

Sentence a win for animal welfare says SPCA.

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

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

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.

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.

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