Environment Minister Nick Smith today announced the five Crown appointees to the Waikato River Authority to enable it to take up its statutory functions with Waikato River iwi representatives from 25 ...

The Waikato River Authority are reported as wanting New Zealanders living in Auckland to pay for more water from the Waikato River and have suggested up to 10 cents a litre, or $20 million a day.

Teacher TJ Mihinui and her children, from left, Aila, five, and Jive, six, enjoying an afternoon in the Waikato River at the Wellington Street beach.DOMINICO ZAPATA / STUFF Friday's high of 30C was ...

Auckland needs to quench the thirst of its ballooning population and is looking take more water from the Waikato River. A leaked resource consent application suggests the supercity's population is ...

Test results reveal drinking water in Waipā and Waikato District has slightly elevated arsenic levels - and Auckland's supply is back within safe levels. Auckland's Watercare and Hamilton City Council ...

Filmmaker Farah Khan visited New Zealand’s iconic The Hobbit shooting location, Hobbiton, sharing photos from her trip. The ...

Tainui and the Crown will jointly govern, restore and protect the Waikato River under the terms of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement enacted by Parliament today. The public galleries were packed with ...

Emergency services were called to Riverbank Rd, Mercer, near Roose Rd, at about 1.30pm yesterday after the car went into the river. Photo: Nick Reed Police divers have recovered the body of a man ...

Waikato River Authority co-chair Paula Southgate has announced she is stepping down from the organisation to concentrate on the changes to local government and city growth challenges over the next few ...

Police have revealed a man found dead in the Waikato River was “subject to a violent attack” before his body was found in the water. 53-year-old Hamilton man John Wirihana Isaac was discovered dead in ...

She was the last of her friends to attempt to get off the rock (Picture: Stuff.co.nz) A young woman drowned after being swept away from friends in the river they were swimming in – because the ...