The 14-year-old and 16-year-old allegedly fled the scene with "a small amount of chocolate," police said.

Air Chathams will be in Whanganui today to outline its plans for its services to the city.

Whanganui MP Chester Borrows fears many Holidaymakers will bypass his beloved central North Island city because of poor signage.

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.

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.

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A 29-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to Whanganui Hospital.

The motorcyclist injured in a crash with a car near Okoia on Thursday will need about three months to recover.

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.

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.

A cat has been shot with an arrow, dozens of cats have gone missing, and dogs have been poisoned in what police fear could be a co-ordinated attack on Wanganui pets.

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.