Police have been stopping drivers on Whanganui River Road, as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Brett Hall.

The Crown claims the man accused of murdering Marice McGregor "has taken us all for fools, gullible and lacking in common sense".

The man facing trial for killing Marice McGregor in April last year says he wasn't relying on her for money, even though his business cash book recorded no cash sales in an 18-month period.

Liz French paddles beneath the Whanganui River's Bridge to Nowhere.

Travellers could get caught as heavy downfalls settle over the North Island for the next 24 hours.

Meat inspectors at a Wanganui plant say they have to meet their union representative on a public road after being denied a meeting at the workplace.

Graphic cellphone video footage has surfaced showing a prolonged and vicious assault that left a Wanganui Girls' College student bleeding from her ears and needing hospital treatment. The footage shows the 15-year-old girl being...

"You did a monstrous thing, but I do not think you are a monster," a High Court Judge told the killer of a two-year-old boy today as he sentenced him to a life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years today.

A Whanganui man was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for kicking to death his partner's two-year-old son.

High Court rules Wanganui cast net too wide and didn't consider all freedom issues