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After flooding in the Bay of Plenty, Auckland and Hamilton, Nelson has become the latest region to be hit by the wild weekend weather.

A New Year's Eve party at a Waihi Beach home has become part of the police inquiry into the killing of a 64-year-old holidaymaker, allegedly by a local teenager.

As a Waihi teen appears in court charged with the murder of Robert Wilkinson, friends of the victim remember him as an "all round nice guy".

A teenager has been charged with the murder of a holidaymaker at Waihi early on New Year's Day.

Stressed Waihi homeowners are close to signing their houses over to an American mining giant after sudden ground movement which affected their properties.

Several knives have been collected by police investigating the murder of a holidaymaker at Waihi Beach early on New Year's Day.

The family of a man murdered in a brutal New Year attack at Waihi Beach have broken their silence and appealed for the killer come forward.

The man stabbed outside a caravan early on New Year's Day has died in hospital, prompting police to ramp up their investigation to a homicide.

Waihi police are asking for New Year's Eve revellers to supply their festive photographs, in the hope police can identify a man who critically stabbed a holidaymaker.

A Waihi Beach man thought the noise he heard in the early hours was the sound of someone falling from a balcony. But when he went to offer help he found a man with two stab wounds fighting for his life.

A holidaymaker is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed in his neck and head when he went to investigate a disturbance outside his caravan at Waihi Beach.

A 100-year-old sporting event continues to thrive, writes Elisabeth Easther.

An exhibition celebrating the actions of a shot police officer who killed a striking Waihi gold miner, 100 years ago, is opening at the New Zealand Police Museum at Porirua tonight.

Carla Botha, co-owner, The Porch at Waihi Beach.

This month's toll of job losses is striking - but it's a reflection of a slowing of the Chinese economy. It's time to look for jobs that have a future.

At Waihi Beach, Elisabeth Easther discovered that it is possible for the busy minded to unwind, if placed in the right hands.