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Regional polytechs facing underfunding - Labour
Regional polytechnics are important to their communities, and the National-led government is underfunding them, two Labour politicians say.
Regional polytechnics are important to their communities, and the National-led government is underfunding them, two Labour politicians say.
Nakaila Woodward-Waitokia will be four in May. She has spent all her life at home because she has heart disease.
Two Wanganui men have been handed community-based sentences for their involvement in a pack attack on a drunk motorcycle racegoer.
Napier JP Pat Magill says the "dark clouds of retribution" are entrenched in New Zealand society, with the public and media reaction to the likes of Stewart Murray Wilson no help to those incarcerated.
Serial sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson will return to prison until at least May 2 after being denied bail this morning.
Serial sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson has appeared in Whanganui District Court this morning in relation to an alleged breach of his parole conditions.
Sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson has been recalled to prison after allegations he phoned someone he was directed not to contact.
Wanganui residents are fed up with the "disgusting" foul stench coming from the city's water treatment plant, but know it will be a while before the problem is fixed.
A boozy celebration on being spared a term of imprisonment will see Michael David McIntyre spend the next 14 months in jail.
The Department of Corrections says there are no plans to expand Whanganui Prison, despite the fact it will need to accommodate more remand prisoners when New Plymouth Prison closes next month.
A dog that refused to stop barking when a fire broke out helped save a mother and her two children from the blaze in the bedroom of a Wanganui house.
Michael Laws has posted of a photograph on Twitter which he says shows paroled sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson at a fishing competition over the weekend.
Four people have been hospitalised after a fire at Wanganui last night.
A Wanganui woman who was attacked by a large dog during a bike ride with her daughter was shocked when it escaped and returned for a second attack.
A woman has been taken to hospital after being found floating down the Whanganui River in Taumarunui.
Two Wanganui charities have been left reeling after they were broken into over the weekend.
The Whanganui River Rd has more tourists than last year, including an increasing number of cyclists.
Two firefighters suffered injuries likely to keep them off work for days while battling a "wall of fire" at a Wanganui house.
A retired engineer who helped design the Wanganui wastewater treatment plant says the solution is to put the fresh excess waste straight out to sea while the problem is being sorted.
A Wanganui real estate agent's appeal against his conviction and sentence for making a threatening phone call to his former employers has been dismissed.
Two of Wanganui's largest wet industries say they are not responsible for dumping solid waste into Wanganui's wastewater treatment plant, causing it to malfunction.
A Whanganui man has been sentenced to 10 months' home detention for supplying methadone which eventually led to a woman's fatal overdose.
A Castlecliff principal has quit the profession he loves after 24 years, slamming schools becoming businesses and the advent of National Standards.