A search and rescue operation is underway for a man who's been swept out to sea at Lake Ferry in the Wairarapa this afternoon.

A body has been located in the Tora bush, believed to be that of a missing hunter.

Rain and possibly thunder and lightning are expected to lash parts of the country again as MetService issues a severe weather watch for Manawatu down to Buller.

Chronically ill former Carterton mayor and Wairarapa MP Georgina Beyer has set her sights on returning to Wairarapa - dead or alive.

Three liquor outlets in the Tararua District have come under fire for selling alcohol to underage teens, despite being shown their correct ID.

Virginian couple had been honeymooning in New Zealand for just five days when husband was killed in a Wairarapa car crash.

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

'I asked him how many Panadol he had taken and he said lots,' mother says of incident last year.

Police have arrested two men in relation to the aggravated robbery in Masterton yesterday.

A man convicted of historic sex charges has had his jail term increased after failing to pay court-ordered reparation to his victims.

Tracy Yeats hopes Govt will take notice of a survey which shows overwhelming support for legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use.

Troubled former All Black Zac Guildford will be back on familiar territory when he arrives in South Featherston to live with grandparents Frank and June Burt.

A jersey signed by the late Jerry Collins is to be auctioned, with funds raised to be given to Collins' baby daughter Ayla.

Increasingly worried pea crop farmers have been given alternatives to help escape the "crisis" brought on by the discovery of the pea weevil in Wairarapa.

The trust which has been running Wairarapa's beleaguered all-weather athletics track in Masterton has voted itself out of existence

Drivers who fail to indicate or give way are being warned to look out. Police will be cracking down on bad driving in Masterton next

A business-savvy traveller from China has chosen Masterton as his new home and the base of a new tour group company. The father of

The Adamson's service station in Featherston has been raided for cigarettes in what police say is the third tobacco burglary to strike

The discovery that a former Wairarapa Building Society (WBS) staff member had been misappropriating money has been described as disappointing

A legal technicality has the Department of Corrections scurrying to impose special release conditions on a soon-to-be-released fraudster

A drink-driver alleged to be more than four times the legal limit was caught during a booze blitz last weekend, but police say overall

When Jacqui Rogers realised she had lost her family's fourth generation crocheted baby blanket, she tore her house apart trying to

Masterton's Alison Andrews-Paul was the toast of the New Zealand squad on the opening day of the world junior (under-20) track and

Cyclists are tentatively backing changes to a dangerous stretch of road after the transport agency bowed to pressure and reviewed

A Masterton District Councillor got more than she bargained for these winter holidays. Pip Hannon was skiing in Queenstown over the

A Martinborough man who sparked a day-long police manhunt has pleaded guilty to pointing a gun in public. Robert James Atkinson

A Carterton hairdressers had a close shave yesterday morning when a vehicle careered into the shop's window, leaving staff "pretty

The Featherston community will soon have a new central meeting hub, with the town square set to be complete by the end of this month. The

A man has been charged in relation to a crash at a Masterton petrol station.