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Police investigate suspicious fire in Dannevirke

Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Dannevirke about 11pm yesterday.

'It's all gone': Fire destroys Dannevirke home

Windows exploded as a Dannevirke woman and three young children ran from a blazing home with flames licking at their backs.

Man dies in Dannevirke quad bike crash

Kia ora: Dannevirke

Elisabeth Easther explores this picturesque town's rich history.

Rats chew through wiring in vehicles

Plaugues of rats are chewing and gnawing their way around rural Tararua, chomping on wiring in vehicles.

Angle-grinder embedded in man's chest

A man has been flown to Wellington Hospital after he walked into a Dannevirke medical centre with an angle grinder embedded in his chest.

Hawke's Bay

Man killed in Christmas Day crash named

Mercy flight for injured young rugby player

Hunter winched to safety by rescue helicopter

A hunter was winched out of a steep ravine by a rescue helicopter after being stranded for a night in bush on the East Coast.

Name of woman struck by train released

Woman lying on train tracks killed

5.2 earthquake felt near Dannevirke

Farmer fined for trapping and painting hawks

Oil companies reassure East Coast communities on 'fracking'

Canadian oil company Apache has been talking up the prospects for onshore oil finds on the North Island's East Coast and is trying to play concerns about fracking and the local environment.

Fracking still on oil companies' agenda

Man's pains 'from uterus op'

A Dannevirke man has been told by a local health board his stomach pain may have been caused by a hysterectomy - the surgical removal of a woman's uterus.

Decision reserved in animal cruelty case