Benn Bathgate

A state home tenant who left behind an aviary and a swing set - among other items - has to pay $4000 toward the clean-up.

Two giant monsters are set to appear in the skies above Waikato next year - but thankfully it's Balloons over Waikato's American guests rather than War of the Worlds.

A third-time drink-driver who had given herself “such a fright”, a young man opting for community work to “get me out of the house” and a hearing that had to be rearranged because a complainant was heavily pregnant.

A Hamilton physiotherapist discussed OnlyFans and other sexual matters with a patient before a months-long erosion of professional boundaries culminated in him masturbating in her presence at her home.

A man who used a child to try to contact his former partner, presented a knife at police and led officers on a dangerous Christmas Eve pursuit

A Syrian national sought by New Zealand police after being charged with possession of execution videos raised more than $8000 from a Givealittle page launched after he fled the country.

A week after a repeat Hamilton sex pest was convicted of harassing women on Hamilton's river path, police have admitted they failed to follow up a near identical case - despite the victim rushing to report it.

Waikato councils are sitting on art collections with recorded values totalling more than $44 million– but some admit they don't even know how many artworks they own, let alone what they're worth.

Soaring cost of living pressures are shaping up to be the key battleground as the election looms, with politicians of all stripes promising a vote for them will lower the cost of filling your fridge - or your car.

A man attempted to take a child in an “extremely unsettling incident” at Pukemokemoke Bush Reserve, police have confirmed.