Mavis Mullins has risen to prominence from early roots in Paewai shearing firm.

DAN23972: LIFELINE: Anne Greatbatch (left), hearing therapist for the Life Unlimited Charitable Trust, with client Nikki Martin. PHOTO/CHRISTINE

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.

State Highway 2 has been closed since the early hours of this morning following a fatal crash near Norsewood.

Boxing Day crash victim remembered as one of the "most amazing people" .

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Across the region returned regional councillors weren't impressed with some of the tactics employed by environmentalists, Dannevirke's

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.

Elisabeth Easther explores this picturesque town's rich history.

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.

Three divers needed rescuing after drifting out to sea on an inflatable boat without lifejackets, a radio, cellphones or an anchor.

A hunter was winched out of a steep ravine by a rescue helicopter after being stranded for a night in bush on the East Coast.