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'Sickening' girl-girl NZ school attack

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...

Bashed school girl 'bled from ears'

Police still looking for car thief

Speeding vehicle lands in river

Whanganui to try new gang patch ban bylaw

School bus, station wagon crash leaves 10 hurt

Tot's killer not a monster - judge

"You did a monstrous thing, but I do not think you are a monster," a High Court Judge told the killer of a two-year-old boy today as he sentenced him to a life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years today.

Man who kicked toddler to death jailed for at least 17 years

A Whanganui man was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for kicking to death his partner's two-year-old son.

Wanganui Council to meet over gang patch ruling

Crashed driver takes good Samaritans' car

Police are disgusted after a crashed driver stole a car belonging to an elderly couple who had stopped to help him.

Cop attack accused named, pair remanded

Mob members weep as crash dead found

Mongrel Mob members huddled together and barked like dogs as a child's body was removed from the water.

Man in custody after fatal river plunge

One dead after car plunges into river

Airman may lose wings over porn convictions

Man guilty of toddler's murder

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

On their bikes

Hit-and-run victim's son speaks