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.

It's been put into the name of the river and the city - and now the H will enter the name of the Wanganui District.

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.

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 woman is calling for her street to be made safer after a car crashed through her front garden - the fifth time it has happened in about a dozen years.

A Wanganui police officer ended up clinging to a speeding car as it careered along Victoria Ave.

A falling meteor may have caused the spate of unexplained fires in Wanganui forest and bush.