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.

A Castlecliff principal has quit the profession he loves after 24 years, slamming schools becoming businesses and the advent of National Standards.

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.

Medical staff say it is too dangerous to operate on a teenage boy after he was stabbed in the face with a screwdriver in Wanganui - reportedly for wearing a blue hat.

A supermarket manager had a firearm thrust into his stomach during a brazen armed hold-up of his Wanganui store on Saturday night.

A Wanganui Collegiate student is in a serious but stable condition in Wanganui Hospital with bacterial meningitis.

Wanganui district councillors Clive Solomon and Michael Laws remain habitual non-attenders at council and committee meetings.

Six much-loved pet lambs belonging to Wanganui school children were stolen at the weekend.

Organisers of the annual White Ribbon Day believe violence toward women has been reduced since the campaign started six years ago.

A documentary filmed in the Whanganui River settlement of Jerusalem is yet to be screened in Wanganui because its co-director is concerned about exposing the children it features, a local cinema proprietor claims.

The man accused of killing journalist Derek Round in Wanganui has made another appearance at the High Court at Wanganui.

Wanganui Collegiate School has gained integration into the state network of schools, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.

Wanganui artist Peter Ireland who exposed a fake Gottfried Lindauer painting at the Waikato Museum of Art and History says there are plenty more forgeries out there to be uncovered.