Mother awaits news on 'critical' son
Mother who can't afford to travel to see her son in hospital says he is still in critical condition.
Mother who can't afford to travel to see her son in hospital says he is still in critical condition.
A Wanganui Cancer Society volunteer has shocked the organisation by offering up his beloved classic car for auction in a bid to raise funds for them.
Ryan David Campbell Thompson, 24, and Hereina Paul, 23, were in the car when it went over a bank at about 10pm and caught fire.
A Whanganui woman was so ensconced in her gambling addiction that she faked paternity documentation to get Working for Families benefits.
The completion of a settlement of major Treaty of Waitangi claims is in the balance after a hui was held to resolve issues over its management.
An injured man who spent the night trapped in a vehicle after it crashed down a bank has been rescued.
The death of a 79-year old Whanganui woman in a house fire could have been prevented with a working smoke alarm.
COMMENT: Across New Zealand, people from many different backgrounds have a deep and passionate connection with their waterways.
Emergency services are responding to what is understood to be a serious car crash near Whanganui.
A man made off with goods from a Whanganui dairy this afternoon in a brazen daylight robbery.
Retired Whanganui farmer Colin Cox thinks Jeremy Kerr, who was jailed for threatening to poison infant milk formula with 1080, was a bit tricky.
An elderly man lay injured and stranded on his bathroom floor for up to a week before being rescued.
A sex shop with signs pointing its back door has enraged residents.
More details about a fatal crash between a house-moving truck and a ute near Whanganui last night have been released by police.
Whanganui could be inundated with Black Power members this weekend, as gang associates arrive for the city chapter leader's tangi.
A explosive found by a Turakina dairy farmer will be detonated this afternoon and police are urging people to stay away from the area.
One person is in hospital suffering from smoke inhalation from a house fire in Whanganui this morning.
Three more charges have been laid against a man who allegedly sparked a police manhunt in the central North Island last month.
A young girl who went missing from her home in Wanganui has been located by police.
Police have named the who died after he was thrown from his motorcycle on Whanganui Beach yesterday evening.
Police were called by a member of the public to Victoria Ave just after 8pm tonight.
Sophie Langston and her partner, Simon Thomas, weren't looking forward to their drive back to Auckland after a family funeral in Whanganui.
Heavy rain is expected to drench the South Island tomorrow and then make its way up the country - possibly hitting the Whanganui and Taranaki region hard.
A convicted murderer has been transferred out of Whanganui Prison after assaulting two prison officers.
It's takes more than the worst recorded flood in Whanganui history to put Riverside Bar regulars off a night at their favourite watering hole.
Three days after the floods hit Whanganui, there's no word yet on when residents evacuated from their houses can return.
Red Cross is launching an appeal to help those affected by the weekend's floods - a disaster the organisation has labelled the worst to strike New Zealand since the Canterbury earthquakes.
Millions of dollars in Government relief will be pumped into the flood-ravaged lower North Island, as authorities warn it could take weeks to clean up.