An aspiring councillor has taken legal advice over an alleged smear campaign involving photos taken from her Facebook site and emailed to a number of residents.

Police say the state of a body found during the hunt for missing Wanganui woman Marice McGregor is hampering identification.

Police looking for Marice McGregor have found a body down a ravine in dense bush but are unable to confirm it is the missing Whanganui woman.

The discovery of a lanyard belonging to missing Whanganui woman Marice McGregor indicates she had got into a vehicle, police say.

James Mills has pleaded guilty to the 2009 murder of Jamie Faulkner. The 29-year-old victim was killed by a single gunshot wound, suffered during an altercation between the two.

Police have widened their search for Whanganui woman Marice McGregor to the Manawatu after evidence her cellphone was switched on in the region a day after she vanished.

The family of a woman missing for 12 days say they are going through a "slow living nightmare" as police admit something untoward may have happened to her.

Police investigating the disappearance of a Whanganui woman 12 days ago are seriously concerned "something untoward" has happened to her and are appealing for sightings of a green van.

The family of a Wanganui woman who went missing in mysterious circumstances 11 days ago has asked the public for information.

Police name a soldier killed when his motorbike hit a car outside the Linton Military Camp today.