Whanganui

More than 300 people turned out to a community meeting in Whanganui last night to fight plans to sell water from an artesian bore near Whanganui River.

A man who went to hospital eight times with an ingrown toenail ended up having his leg amputated.

Nearly 100 people have found jobs as part of the Whanganui port upgrade Te Pūwaha.

One thousand, one hundred and forty-two days ago Brenda O'Shea had to make the toughest decision any parent could face - turning off the machines keeping her daughter alive.

The two areas have been without any such homes since the then-National government sold its stock of more than 500 of them in 1999.

A man whose body was found after a house fire in Levin was a well-known punk rock musician in the town.

The Whanganui police area commander says plans for a new police hub are progressing and a revised completion date will soon be set.

Scott Phillips is satanist and an "extreme wedding" celebrant. He's also standing for Whanganui District Council.

A mayoral candidate convicted after threatening to burn down an RSA and attack Parliament with explosives is in custody in Whanganui Prison on a charge relating to the 2018 conviction.

A Parliament with no Speaker is a motley collection of disputants and debaters awaiting direction. This week Parliament elected itself a new leader and the Governor General affirmed their choice. We…

For more than fifty years Whanganui man Mike McGee hunted and tramped in the bush and ranges of the North Island. The love of the outdoors was in his blood and spurred him to write many poems about…

Horizons Regional Council has applied to import and release the bud-galling wasp to control the spread of an invasive acacia shrub. Audio

A district council is installing dozens of isolation valves across a water network to help solve the mystery of massive water losses.

The average annual cost to repair homes damaged by river floods is more than $100 million and forecast to rise, according to new analysis.

With fewer than 24 hours before nominations for October's local body elections close, people are being encouraged to get their nominations in.

Early stages of work on the Whanganui port upgrade are running over budget because of a new way of working under the legal status of the Whanganui River.

Police were alerted that a man had fallen into a gully on the central North Island mountain shortly after 5pm yesterday.

A watchdog group says a former patient of Lake Alice's child and adolescent unit was just five years old when he was sent to the notorious psychiatric hospital.