David Bourke was today jailed for shooting dead his brother.

Two youths were remanded in custody when they appeared in Wanganui District Court today after a police officer was brutally attacked with a machete over the weekend.

The Police Minister will meet the Police Commissioner today to discuss a report on whether to give officers easier access to firearms following the brutal machete attack on a policeman on Saturday morning.

A police officer who was brutally attacked with a machete on Saturday morning has been overwhelmed by messages of support from workmates and the public, police say.

A seven-year-old girl who went missing in Palmerston North last night has been found safe and well, police say.

A Whanganui High Court jury has found Rikki Ngatai-Check, who kicked two-year-old Karl Perigo-Check to death, guilty of murder.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman hit by a car while picnicking with a friend on the roadside north of Wellington last month.

The rescue was of Hollywood proportions... A man and his wife are in a taxi, they see a little boy standing on the tracks...

The Palmerston North rescue helicopter has airlifted two trampers out of the bush.

NZ Post allowed a Manawatu mailman to keep driving for them, despite knowing about a string of drink-driving convictions.