Super Rugby Preview: Blues face season-defining clash

PREVIEW OF SUPER RUGBY ROUND 15 MATCHES (all NZ times): FRIDAY, May 24 Chiefs v Crusaders at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton 7.35pm Head to Head: Played 20 Chiefs 6 Crusaders 14 In Hamilton: Played 9 Chiefs 3 Crusaders 6 Last clash: Semi Finals 2012 - ...

Hamilton has become the first city council in New Zealand to approve paying all staff a 'living wage', and Auckland and Wellington are considering following suit, a campaigner says. Campaigners say the living wage, calculated at $18.40 per hour, is ...

Hamilton West School students Toni Stensness and Paige Robinson are brave girls. The pair of 10-year-olds did all the right things when two hammer-wielding teenage boys - not Hamilton West pupils - came through the school late last term and abused ...

Police are calling on the public to boycott Hamilton dairies selling controversial legal highs. But one dairy owner is still stocking synthetic cannabis products, claiming they are his "bread and butter" and the Government is to blame for not ...

A Hamilton woman woke to screams of "fire, fire, fire" this morning and found flames bursting from her neighbours' house as she went to investigate. "I woke my partner and called 111 and ran outside to see the two women next door coming out of their ...

The partner of the Hamilton victim of an aggravated robbery turned up on her neighbour's doorstep "screaming and hiding". "She was standing on my deck sort of screaming and hiding at the same time, ranting about: my partner's been bashed up and ...

Jason Kerr used to visit his mother every day. The 38-year-old would walk into her Wha St home in Hamilton, put the jug on, make a coffee and steal one of her cigarettes. But then he was beaten to death; left unrecognisable in a pool of blood. A ...

Alarming video footage out of Hamilton shows just how bad some motorists are when it comes to red light running. Police in the city recently started a crack-down on the red-light runners. Sergeant Phil Ruddell of the Hamilton Strategic Traffic Unit ...

The family of a Hamilton teen treated like a "ragdoll" during a vicious rape in 2011 have finally seen the perpetrators dealt hefty prison terms. Benjamin Nilesh Goundar, 24, and Ashumendra Rohit Prasad, 27, stood expressionless in the dock of the ...