The wife of a soldier charged with performing indecent acts on two 13-year-olds yesterday gave evidence supporting her husband.

Two teenage girls have given evidence against a NZ Army warrant officer accused of sexually violating them.

The opening of a "pop-up" drug store in Wanganui has angered other retailers in the block and prompted community concern.

A man who repeatedly assaulted a woman and routinely tied her to a bed to stop her from going into town - all while on parole for similar crimes - was jailed yesterday.

A man facing three charges of misconduct under the Real Estate Agents Act walked out of a disciplinary hearing in Wanganui yesterday.

A man who threw a knife at a passing car carrying a mother and her daughter has been arrested.

Wanganui Hospital will retain the current spelling of its name - unless you're speaking Maori.

Many of the weekend's power cuts could have been prevented if trees had been pruned properly, according to Powerco's network operations manager Phil Marsh.

Wanganui High School and Wanganui Rugby Football Union are investigating a violent under-16s schoolboy game called off early after fighting broke out.

A Wanganui man has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for manslaughter after helping to inject a woman with methadone - a drug implicated in her death.

Sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson's appeal for a judicial review against his restrictive parole conditions has been declared moot because of his recall to prison.

A man has been jailed for historical sexual offences against two girls - sisters who were his own children's friends.