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Hairdresser drives recycling

A Hamilton hairdresser is working to pretty-up the environment through a new recycling initiative.

Fans respond well

Sonny Bill fever and a new "Rolls Royce backline" for the Chiefs appears to be paying off as fans flock to buy season tickets.

Drugs in mum's handbag

The mother of the Fairfield College student who took party pills to school and gave them to her friends was admonished for poor parenting decisions in Hamilton District Court yesterday.

Employers cast net wide

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Waikato employers are looking outside the region to fill scores of technology-related jobs.

Fire 'deliberately lit'

JONATHAN CARSON - © Fairfax NZ News

Police are investigating a suspicious fire that "totalled" a vacant farm house in Ngatea.

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Search on for neighbour of the year

Le Mans Porsche in parade

Community work for principal

Claudelands centre more than $2.6m behind target

Lilo voyager nearing landfall

Council strikes deal to bid for Fifa games

Milk tanker rolls

Garage sale was a steal

Arson shocks family

Safe car difference between life and death

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Man hurt in roof fall

A man is in hospital in a serious condition after he fell through the roof of a building in central Auckland.

Search for missing man called off

Police have called off the search for a man who yesterday fell from the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Future Hells Angels rides 'possible'

World News

Syrian army general assassinated

Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus today in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March.