Stories by Natalie Akoorie

The man who escaped custody has been named as 48-year-old Damon Anderson.

A prisoner who escaped the custody of Corrections staff at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton was there for "medical oversight".

The man suffered a dislocated shoulder in the incident at Kaitaia police station in April and complained he had been pushed at the top of the stairs and punched in the face.

A former National MP and incumbent Hamilton City Councillor has been hired by the University of Waikato to advocate for its proposed third medical school.

The driver escaped largely unscathed today, after the car went up a bank, through a metal fence and crashed into a parked car, before finally coming to a halt on its side.

The survivors and their families will get the first private viewing of the design for a memorial proposed to honour the dead.

Letters sent to IT employees at Te Whatu Ora Waikato - which outlined a proposed restructure and possible disestablishment of their jobs - included the wrong job titles.

Instead the elite cyclist, left vulnerable from bullying within Cycling New Zealand, was considered at low risk of suicide.

The three-vehicle crash, including a bus carrying 11 tourists, resulted in one death and put 14 people in hospital.

Olivia Podmore was never referred for a detailed psychological assessment after she scored poorly on a mood test that indicated she found life meaningless and did not believe in her own self-worth.

An inquest into the cyclist's suspected suicide heard she was burned out nd presenting as having severe anxiety and depression before her death.

There's a wastewater system, a fireplace, a separate structure on wheels, one labelled a treehouse - and council has issued 11 notices - to no avail.

The remains were discovered in a rural area of Waikato earlier this week.

"It's a moment where you want to know and yet you don't want to know."

Mike Sherman says he was hit by a carer and had his food and drink withheld: "People didn't treat me like a human being."

A detective who visited Joel Buckley five months before he died said it was not his job to investigate whether he still had possession of a military-style rifle.

The Anglican boarding school in Hamilton allows girls to attend from Year 11 (fifth form).

The family of Carmen Walker - who died following complications during a procedure at Waikato Hospital - say the coroner should correct a mistake in his findings.

Hamilton's Andrew Bydder was censured by his colleagues and ordered to apologise for ableist slurs and derogatory comments.

A hearing is being held on Tuesday over extending contracts for seven motels for another 12 months. Audio

Four elected parents resigned after a furore into the Onewhero Area School board of trustees' decision to dismiss the teacher over a school rugby trip.

Andrew Bydder was meant to apologise to mayor Susan O'Regan as well the Cerebral Palsy Society.

The 7100 hectare wetland made up of peat bog, vegetation and fen, was the scene of two fires in the 1980s.

Bremner's frenzied attacks on his parents and a couple he didn't know killed three of them. Some details can now be reported for the first time.

Police have arrested 28 people in Ōpōtiki and around the North Island as part of Operation Highwater.