Abuse and Rape Crisis Support Manawatu is reducing its counselling hours after government funding cuts.

The Manawatu Gorge has reopened to all traffic again after being plagued by a series of slips. - but a small rockfall means it may have to briefly shut again.

Eruption activity has subsided but another eruption could occur at any time with little or no warning, according to Civil Defence. Read the latest.

A stable at the Foxton Racecourse was engulfed in flames last night, the second fire there in three days.

A Dannevirke man has been told by a local health board his stomach pain may have been caused by a hysterectomy - the surgical removal of a woman's uterus.