Mike Mather

UVA Wise Chancellor Donna P. Henry, left, presents UVA Board of Visitors member Tom DePasquale with the Crockett Award to honor DePasquale’s work to strengthen ties between the schools. (Photo by Jay Huron) T om DePasquale heard some students at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise were dropping out of school, not because of academic struggles or tuition costs, but for common financial stressors: car repairs, medical expenses, rising rent.

A deaf man was bashed, had a tyre slashed and his windscreen smashed during a pitched one-on-one fight on a suburban Hamilton street.

A man has admitted destroying half of a historic railway building in a fire he deliberately lit last year.

A man speeding down a central Hamilton thoroughfare hit a woman crossing the road, striking her with such force she flew 24 metres through the air before hitting the ground.

He's Nicholas Down, but is he out? Waikato Times can reveal liquidators for the former HamiltonEV director's failed company have commissioned

The comments and questions have popped into the University of Virginia’s emails, been posted to UVA’s social media accounts and posed by reporters to University administrators. Does UVA really spend $20 million annually on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as a recent analysis by external advocacy organizations suggests?

A $4 million home being built by a former Black Cap in an affluent Hamilton suburb may need to be re-designed mid-construction, depending on the outcome of a court battle between neighbours.

Is “boxy” in the eye of the beholder? That is a central question a High Court judge must ponder, in a high stakes battle between neighbours in an affluent Hamilton suburb.

A fracas over a knife stuck in a dirty kitchen sink in an assisted living residence came to a dramatic and bloody end with a man being fatally stabbed.

One neighbour reckons a house being built in a high-end Hamilton suburb is going to be a box-shaped blot on the landscape.