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Slow road to recovery for flying instructor
The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.
Crash survivors critically injured - chopper pilot
Two men are "pretty banged up" after their plane crashed in the Ruahine Ranges this afternoon.
Light plane crashes near Palmerston North
Two men have survived a light plane crash in the Ruahine Ranges and have been taken to Palmerston North Hospital.
Police launch homicide inquiry in Feilding
The dawn slaying of a Feilding dairy farmer in his driveway has left his shattered family struggling.
Farmer's death upgraded to homicide
A young Manawatu dairy farmer shot dead in his driveway is now being treated as a homicide, police say.
Family of Feilding man found dead: 'It's so unfair'
The family of Feilding dairy farmer Scott Guy, whose death police are treating as suspicious, have paid tribute to him.
Man found dead in Feilding driveway
Police are treating the death of a man in Feilding as suspicious after his body was found in the Manawatu town this morning.
He's going to the chapel
Dave Dobbyn, who celebrated 30 years in music last year, is touring the majestic churches, chapels and cathedrals of New Zealand on the 2010 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour.
Mt Ruapehu: A snow bunny is born
Helen van Berkel returns to the slopes and finds that skiing is nothing like riding a bike... and that kids are better at it.
Strip club dad convicted of assault
A man who left his baby son unattended in a car while he visited a Wellington strip club has admitted assaulting the child's mother.
Stabbing accused named
A 25-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his brother in a fight, has had his name suppression order lifted.
Grandmother jailed for Cherish manslaughter
"Count yourself lucky," Justice Warwick Gendall told Joanne Jasmine Tahuri as he sentenced her for the manslaughter of her granddaughter.
Court fills with sobs over guilty verdict
Alistair McWhannell has been found guilty of manslaughter in the bridge-swinging death of Massey University student Catherine Peters.