A man has been charged with the murder of a 23-year-old woman shot at her home in Otaki Beach yesterday.

Liz French paddles beneath the Whanganui River's Bridge to Nowhere.

The Ruapehu region is a great place to get on your bike.

Travellers could get caught as heavy downfalls settle over the North Island for the next 24 hours.

A Manawatu teen was today jailed for eight years and three months for the attempted murder of a Taihape policeman last year. Bruce Mellor was left for dead when he was attacked from behind with a machete after pulling over a stolen red

Handwritten letters from students in Feilding have warmed the hearts of emergency service workers in quake-stricken Christchurch.

Parents need to take responsibility in the aftermath of a horrific attack which left a Whanganui schoolgirl bloodied and in need of hospital treatment, Education Minister Anne Tolley says.

Meat inspectors at a Wanganui plant say they have to meet their union representative on a public road after being denied a meeting at the workplace.

A coroner has laid blame for the death of a student killed in a bridge swinging accident in 2009 on the man who failed to check the rope.

Graphic cellphone video footage has surfaced showing a prolonged and vicious assault that left a Wanganui Girls' College student bleeding from her ears and needing hospital treatment. The footage shows the 15-year-old girl being...

Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy has been leaving prison for medical treatment, the Department of Corrections has confirmed today.