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Vehicle fire temporarily closed State Highway 1 south of Waiouru.

In 1969, a 20-year-old Corporal Benfell led eight men into combat in Vietnam.

Waiouru has flushed away its competition, and taken out the award for the country's best public toilets.

Desert Rd down to one lane after crash.

Ryan David Campbell Thompson, 24, and Hereina Paul, 23, were in the car when it went over a bank at about 10pm and caught fire.

Wild Kaimanawa horses couldn't drag Elisabeth Easther away from this adventurous town.

An army bombardier, decorated for acts of bravery, has fallen from grace as he was sentenced today for offences including indecent assault.

A soldier who died after falling into a Waiouru lake during a training exercise should have been able to release a 20kg gun easily, the former Chief of Army says.

Kayakers faced dangerous rapids and near-freezing water to clean the Waihohonu Stream of debris spilled from a fatal truck crash earlier this month.

The driver who died when his truck crashed into the Waihohonu Stream on the Desert Rd stream early yesterday has been named.

The body of a truck driver killed in a crash this morning on the Desert Road has been found.

The family of Private Michael Ross say they are relieved the soldier's body has been found, a week after he fell into a lake near Waiouru.

Hopes are fading that a soldier missing in a lake near Waiouru will be found alive, Inspector Steve Mastrovich says.

A New Zealand man who flew back from Australia voluntarily to face charges of stealing more than 800 medals from Waiouru Army Museum over a seven-year period in a "devastating theft" made a brief appearance in court today.

Big deals in the past six months are generating confidence, say brokers