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Flooding: 'Every ambo's horror story'
It was a paramedic's "horror story" - trying to get a woman apparently in labour to hospital in the middle of a flood.
It was a paramedic's "horror story" - trying to get a woman apparently in labour to hospital in the middle of a flood.
Home suffers severe flooding after being hit by fifth landslip in five years and two years after owner spent thousands of dollars on new drainage and retaining wall.
Flooding caused road and bridge closures, cut power to homes and forced people to spend night in emergency accommodation or with friends and family.
Roads closed by extensive flooding and slips in the lower North Island are reopening tonight, but transport authorities are warning motorists to take care.
The Whanganui River has burst its banks, and the public are being warned to stay away from the river.
A lightning strike has closed a school in Whanganui this afternoon.
Pulitzer-winning journalist Gene Weingarten tells Morgan Tait why he strongly believes parents should not be prosecuted in 'forgotten baby' circumstances.
A cyclist has been taken to hospital after it is believed he was hit by a car on St John's Hill.
A woman who joined in an attack on strangers in the street and yelled “that’s what you get for being white” has been sentenced to community work.
A falling meteor may have caused the spate of unexplained fires in Wanganui forest and bush.
A man found dead in a Wanganui park was a former Mongrel Mob gang associate who was jailed over the death of toddler Jhia Te Tua in a drive-by shooting in 2007.
A man's body was recovered from the Whanganui River about 6.30am today.
A man who punched his partner and her mother and threw a metal pole at her sister has been sentenced to community detention.
'I wasn't involved,' says a man - jailed for a hostel fire in Australia which killed a tourist - whose house has been hit twice by fire in Wanganui.
A 14-year-old boy had to leap for his life in Wanganui yesterday as a car crashed through the fence he was standing in front of.
Last Friday, Whanganui District Health Board members voted 9-2 to spell the name of their hospital correctly as Whanganui with an "h".
A woman who spent 14 hours alone with the wreckage of her car after she crashed down a bank had to set her car on fire to attract attention.
A driver was stabbed by a hitchhiker he picked up near Wanganui at the weekend, police say.
A Whanganui woman who took two and a half years to complete just one hour of a 200-hour community work sentence has been hauled back before a court.
This diverse river city offers adventures, galleries, top cafes and more, writes Elisabeth Easther.
A deer hunter has been hospitalised after his quad bike rolled and crushed him in remote forest overnight.
Michael Laws has been asked to take a paternity test to determine whether the son of his ex-girlfriend is his child.