A bottle of PureCure's Te Kiri Gold, which retails for $100.

Cancer 'snake oil cure' 

Desperately ill Kiwis forego established medicine for well-known "quack" cure.

Haka steps closed

The Hakarimata track in Ngaruawahia is a popular walking track with thousands of visitors each year.

Heavy rain means the track is unsafe.

Race to save belongings from fire

Couple fling their stuff out as fire rips through storage shed ceiling cavity.

New city trail opens video

It's 2.7km long and connects southwestern suburbs to the city centre.

Teens' flood heroics video

Amid the torrent they formed a waterbreak with their bodies to help others, embodying the Kiwi spirit.

Armed search in Cambridge

Armed Offenders Squad members and officers seen searching house.

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Dam blamed for major flood video

The dam is near the township of Edgecumbe.

Ask them what put their small town under water and Edgecumbe residents point to the Matahina Dam.

Ruatoki breeds 'em tough video

Up in the Ruatoki Valley, they're survivors. They know help's not coming soon when floods hit. Besides, they've seen all this before.

Vintage Read: Crossing to Safety

Taupo RSA under new management

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New freedom camping app for private propert

Blue Mountain Cottages farm stay at Te Anau is among the varied properties prepared to host motorhome travellers through ...

A new app hooking up motor home travellers with private property owners is being touted as a solution to freedom camping woes.

Minimum wage increases - but is it enough?

Waikato Chamber of Commerce chief executive William Durning says people shouldn't confuse the living wage and minimum wage.

Could you live on $15.75 per hour?

Gains for Waipa through Masters Games

Waipa mayor Jim Mylchreest.

Waipa becoming the Home of Business for the Waikato.

Camping's a $1b business

A recent survey found more than a quarter of Kiwi holiday park guests had stayed in the same park more than 11 times.

It's a traditional Kiwi activity, but overseas visitors now make up a third of people at holiday parks.

Wiped out

Geoff Hutchison, owner of Backdoor surf, snow and skate apparel, is closing down his first store, opened in 1993.

A lack of shoppers in central Hamilton has Geoff Hutchison closing the first of his nationwide Backdoor surf stores.

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Eastern Suburbs, Albion stay unbeaten

Otago all-rounder Sam Wells blazed 116 not out for Albion at the national club cricket finals on Friday.

 Eastern Suburbs and Albion teams to beat at national club cricket finals.

NZ sevens skipper out of HK tournament

New Zealand sevens captain Scott Curry has been ruled out of the Hong Kong tournament with the flu.

New Zealand will be without their skipper at Hong Kong tournament through illness.

Chiefs ready for Stormers backlash

Toni Pulu is back from a hamstring injury and has been reinstated on the right wing for the Chiefs for their match ...

Having embarrassed them 60-21 in last year's quarterfinal, the Chiefs know the Stormers will be "pissy".

Tech v Marist: Old duo clash

Samisoni Taukei'aho has been with the Chiefs after starring for Fraser Tech last year.

Fraser Tech lose injured pair as they host an old Waikato foe in the shape of Hamilton Marist.

Sport looks different when you study biomechanics

Sian Potter takes part in the vertical jump as part of the first Biomechanics Day was held at the Avantidrome.

Students learn how biomechanics fits into sport and their daily lives.

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Strange logic

Actors Uelese Petaia, Frankie Adams and film director and Waikato University alumnus Tusi Tamasese attend the One ...

OPINION: Academics are once again getting it in the Arts & Social Science at Waikato University, Richard Swainson writes.

A life full of music

Barbara Smith, front and centre, as musical director of the Waikato Rivertones, just one of many musical groups she was ...

OBITUARY: Barbara Smith's love of music touched people wherever she went.

Stretched to breaking point

Hamilton police keeping a watch in the city during O-Week in February.

OPINION: Hamilton city cops are doing it tough, writes Max Christoffersen, who wonders how long they can stay motivated when the odds seem stacked against them.

Hate speech threat

Human Rights Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy would like to see tougher hate speech laws.

OPINION: Free speech is worth protecting – even if we do have to put up with the odd horrible person saying awful things, writes Narelle Henson.

Listen and learn

In the first years of life, children pick up any language put in front of them on a regular basis.

OPINION: Between 6 to 8 months of age, babies are citizens of the world as far as languages go, writes Dr Sabine Seehagen.

Life & Style

Plea for historic Cambridge photographs

A photograph showing caravans heading around the Cambridge Town Clock in 1934. Do you have any old photographs of ...

The Cambridge Camera Club is looking for early photographs of Cambridge.

Diabetes research earns award

Cambridge's Susie Ryan with her Honorary Master of Nursing Award.

Waikato nurse's research helped people understand diabetes.

Offering animals new chance in life

A newborn kitten at New Lives Animal Rescue.

Money made from new shop will help sick animals.

Hazel the Pitbull's third book

Hazel the Pitbull will make an appearance at Cambridge Paper Plus for a book reading on Friday, April 21.

Canine and owner combine to release their third book.

Maria Farinasso's Waikato highlights

A sample of Maria Farinasso's Latin pastries.

Uruguayan pastry chef Maria Farinasso and her family share their Latin passion through food.

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Waikato treasures gifted to museum

Trust Waikato chairman Niwa Nuri and Hamilton Mayor Julie Hardaker discuss artist Dick Frizzell's work Pile of Stumps.

Art and other taonga open to view 

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