Children were caught setting fire to astro turf at a South Wairarapa school this afternoon.

Train passengers on the Wellington region's Hutt Valley and Kapiti lines will have 1000 more seats to choose from in morning and afternoon

A decision to take in Wairarapa stars proved fatal for American tourist Douglas Dietz who was found dead in his rental car.

A life has been lost on a South Wairarapa road this morning.

A large slip has blocked SH3 in North Taranaki, flooding and slips have closed roads in Wellington and hampered the capital's World War I centenary events.

A man has died at a Carterton homekill business this morning after a suspected medical event.

'I asked him how many Panadol he had taken and he said lots,' mother says of incident last year.

Police have arrested two men in relation to the aggravated robbery in Masterton yesterday.

The mauling of a 15-year-old dog in Masterton has left its owner feeling "wrenched".

Increasingly worried pea crop farmers have been given alternatives to help escape the "crisis" brought on by the discovery of the pea weevil in Wairarapa.

A woman who survived an ill-fated rafting trip that claimed the life of her Oscar winner husband by clinging to a ledge as waters raged around her has died.

A business-savvy traveller from China has chosen Masterton as his new home and the base of a new tour group company. The father of

A man has been charged in relation to a crash at a Masterton petrol station.

Average house values in Masterton and Carterton have fallen in the last three months, despite house values rising around the country

A giant kiwi has briefly taken flight in the tiny town of Eketahuna - just long enough to find a new nest.

A Greytown-born Jack of all Arts will be moving on from Wairarapa, leaving his second-hand bookshop behind to turn a new page in the

Compass Health's three-week smoke-free dining trial came to a close last week, with the majority of people filling out campaign surveys

Emergency services in southern Wairarapa are busy today dealing with three car crashes, the most serious of which saw a woman flown to hospital by helicopter.

Nature lovers heading into the bush are being urged let someone know where they're going following a major search and rescue operation north of Wellington.

A man who rushed to a fatal crash last night recounted the horror that awaited him after a car plunged into a flooded river.

One person has died and three others were left clinging to a car roof after the vehicle ended up in a river.

Were the quakes that struck Wairarapa today and Christchurch last night caused by the weather or planets ... or neither?

Police and family searchers have found two young runaways near a lake several kilometres from their Masterton home after the pair went missing two nights ago.

Volunteers discovered the largely intact skeleton while cataloguing items at the old hospital in the museum grounds last week.