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 "very old" maternity services building where a newborn baby died when he did not receive effective ventilation following his birth has been demolished and replaced.

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.

Wanganui District Council has not breached resource consent despite the city's wastewater treatment plant having to be partially shut down.

Wanganui racer Mick Paul is aiming to realise the dream of a late Christchurch aircraft engineer to break Burt Munro's land speed record.

A person has died in a house fire in Wanganui today.

Both place names 'Wanganui' and 'Whanganui' have been recognised as official names of the city in Parliament today.

The sister of a "big, gentle, kind kid" stabbed in the face with a screwdriver in Wanganui still hopes the police will find her brother's attacker.

The Wanganui phone book will no longer have an image of Italian dictator Mussolini on its cover.

The teenager stabbed in the face in Wanganui will spend Christmas in intensive care at Wellington Hospital.

An "unprovoked attack" in Wanganui was described by a female staying the weekend at a Victoria Ave flat as like being in a war zone.