Latest from Tokoroa

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.

At least 10 people have been hurt, one critically and three seriously, after five serious crashes on Waikato and Bay of Plenty roads today.

Judge sensed Arjay Paraku-Harris was worth taking a gamble on - but it would come with a catch.

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

Three men and a 13-year-old boy have been arrested after a 60 strong brawl in Tokoroa which saw a teenage boy seriously injured.

A supermarket security guard has been hit by a car as two alleged shoplifters tried to make a get away. A police spokeswoman said

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.