King Country residents are debating the future of the local power trust - which currently pumps more than $1 million a year back into the community Made with funding from NZ On Air.
In February 1997 Stephen Anderson went on a killing spree in Raurimu. Twenty years since the massacre, the Herald looks back on the terror and tragedy.
District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.
Almost 100 young people will get free restricted licences in Taumarunui, getting them off the street and into employment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Waikato District Health Board is postponing around 500 patients' appointments because of the strike.
Watch NZH Local Focus: Getting young Taumarunui people driving. To get your driver's licence as a youth in Taumarunui used to cost up to $1000 with lessons. But - thanks to a Government initiative - more people are getting licenced for free. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
The people of Taumarunui have been part of a social expert, that is paying off, bringing youth crime down. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Almost 100 young people will get free restricted licences in Taumarunui, getting them off the street and into employment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
More than a dozen aftershocks have rattled the country since midnight last night.
Squally thunderstorms and heavy rain are forecast to hit the North Island overnight, with a severe weather watch in place.
Elderly couple found dead in their King Country home last week will be laid to rest at a big gathering of whanau today.
As all the jobs and big-smoke buzz centres on Auckland, the regions are trying to find a way to carry on, writes Russell Blackstock.
More than 30 people attended two candidate workshops in the Ruapehu area recently for those interested in standing in the local body
Roger Hall climbs aboard a golf buggy to see some isolated, but beautiful, scenery.
An elderly man was rescued after spending several hours in heavy bush near Taumarunui over night.
A female passenger of a speeding vehicle which crashed near Taumaranui a week ago has died in hospital.
Montaperto is a true country girl. It was a year before boyfriend Jaimee Ellis saw her in makeup or a dress.
A person is dead and one other seriously injured after a car crashed near a highway this morning.
A 22-year-old man has been critically injured after falling through a roof in Taumarunui last night.
Elisabeth Easther finally knocks off the other half of the Timber Trail.
Elisabeth Easther took a quirky rail trip and has been singing the little engines' praises ever since.
This King Country town will make you feel right at home, writes Elisabeth Easther.
People in the Taumarunui community are being advised not to be concerned following the discovery of a man's body in a shallow grave.
A bus carrying students and teachers from three Wanganui high schools crashed into a ditch on State Highway 4 near Taumarunui this afternoon, injuring eight.
Fatal accidents, breakdowns and huge traffic backlogs have plagued the first four days of the official Christmas road toll period.
Paul Rush tackles foaming rapids on a six-day journey down the Whanganui River.