A fugitive described as armed and dangerous  was arrested by armed officers near Marton yesterday. Whanganui Armed Offenders Squad and police staff from Marton were involved as Waikato detectives arrested ...

Former All Black Norm Hewitt says there is magic between children and animals - but there can  also be a link between animals and domestic violence. The former hooker captivated ...

The mysterious world of fossils will be revealed at the Whanganui Regional Museum tomorrow. The theme for this month's Kiwi Conservation Club is fossils, and children will have the opportunity ...

Smoke, snakes and darkness in hell, angels, hymns and light in heaven - one of the greatest pieces of Catholic literature is to be staged by a Wanganui school. Making ...

 Almost 500 people in the region have gone on to benefits in the past three months - nearly half on unemployment benefit, Ministry of Social Development statistics show. And until ...

She is as middle class and Pakeha as they come but Louise Barnicoat longs to be able to go out in the street or into a store and use the ...

A flying instructor and a student have been killed in a mid-air plane collision in the Manawatu. The crash happened when two Cessna 152s collided near the Feilding Aerodrome, 5.6km ...

Four All Blacks took the chance to say thank you to  a Wanganui Collegiate rugby icon yesterday, at the same time celebrating the 100th birthday of the ground they learned ...

Arthur Winterburn says they did not have much when he was growing up in Wanganui and riding on trams as a boy was a cheap way of getting around. The ...

Members of Whanganui iwi spoke about their special relationship and concerns around their tupuna rohe with the visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental ...