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Police have named the person who died in a fatal crash on State Highway 52 on Saturday as David Jefferey Thomas The 46-year-old

One person is dead and another sustained life threatening injuries in a car crash near Dannevirke shortly after midnight.

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Police say 14 primary school students were very, very lucky, after their school bus slammed into a concrete power pole near Dannevirke.

One New Plymouth family were gifted a trampoline after high winds blew it into their property.

The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter airlifted the man, who has sustained head injuries, to Palmerston North Hospital.

Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Dannevirke about 11pm yesterday.

Windows exploded as a Dannevirke woman and three young children ran from a blazing home with flames licking at their backs.

Plaugues of rats are chewing and gnawing their way around rural Tararua, chomping on wiring in vehicles.

A man has been flown to Wellington Hospital after he walked into a Dannevirke medical centre with an angle grinder embedded in his chest.

One person has died in a house fire in Pongaroa, south of Dannevirke overnight. Fire services found it well alight on arrival.

A Dannevirke family have been left with nothing after a suspicious fire destroyed their rural home on Saturday night.

Dannevirke's reputation as one of New Zealand's luckiest Lotto towns has been cemented by a $14.1 million Big Wednesday win.

A 25-year-old soldier was injured after falling 5 metres into a dry riverbed near Dannevirke.