Benn Bathgate

When a married 50-year-old Matangi couple objected to Ztanlee Pira doing burnouts outside their home, he knocked both of them unconscious - one with a kick to the head, the other a punch.

Hamilton has emerged as one of New Zealand's better places to live, ranking fourth out of seven major cities for quality of life in a nationwide survey.

Broken light bulbs in his food, urine and faeces under the door and nine years during which “he will definitely not at any point be able to be relaxed”.

What should have been a simple appearance on driving charges descended into shouts of “treason”, threats of contempt of court and security bundling a man out of Thames District Court on Tuesday.

A long-running legal battle with Hamilton City Council has left workplace advocate and self-styled “ bully battler ” Allan Halse facing a $31,000 bill – on top of another $9300 he already owes the council.

The man accused of taking ‘Over the Moon' cheese from a landfill and reselling it can now be named as James Houkamau.

Almost two weeks before the 200 strong ‘Bike Life' pack brought parts of Hamilton to a standstill, members of the group launched a “flurry” of

A Kāinga Ora tenant left her two children with a mentally unstable, low IQ, drug addicted woman so she could “party” - only for the woman to set the property on fire after dropping her methamphetamine pipe.

A son's attempt to have his father freed from prison has been rejected by the High Court in Hamilton after arguments challenging the jurisdiction of New Zealand's courts were branded “legally unsound”.

The first person to have 3D printed firearms seized by Waikato police was in the process of “printing” a suppressor when cops called, and admitted later “he had in fact smoked methamphetamine just before police arrived”.