Jimmy Ellingham

Former international cricketer Andrew Penn has returned to the field after more than 15 years and will this weekend open the batting in a rep Twenty20 tournament in Palmerston North. Audio

A Palmerston North woman says a relative in her 80s waited almost a day in the city hospital's overcrowded emergency department until she was moved to a ward.

The family of a man who died after falling two storeys out of a Palmerston North Hospital window say urgent changes are needed to avoid a repeat.

Damage from ex-tropical Cyclone Dovi has left people stranded in their homes, while power outages are affecting farms and schools.

Palmerston North officials are asking Parliament to help turn an overgrown former city bowling green into housing.

Forty-nine years after the first women's Cricket World Cup, New Zealand is about to host the tournament. Jimmy Ellingham speaks to members of the 1973 team about their memories on and off the field. Video

Sportspeople are being asked to perform in red traffic light restrictions that limit fixtures to a maximum of 100 people.

The union representing prison staff is warning the loss of dozens of workers who refused to get vaccinated will disrupt prison life.

The planned Covid-19 response has been updated to adapt for the arrival of Omicron, Manawatū health officials say.

Two men jailed for killing a Palmerston North man 15 years ago will remain behind bars after their first parole hearings.

Three women accused of flouting Covid-19 restrictions by travelling to Auckland the same weekend as an anti-lockdown protest in October are heading to trial.

An experienced ACC lawyer is urging the corporation to review the way it assesses claims for people with work-related terminal cancer.

New research into New Zealanders' beer buying habits shows a huge rise in the popularity of low- and no-alcohol beer.

There are renewed hopes a long-awaited new development could return a Palmerston North inner-city eyesore to its former glory.

The family of a man who died days after he was injured when he fell two storeys out a Palmerston North Hospital window are holding the hospital responsible for his death.

After 400 matches and 40 international centuries, Ross Taylor is retiring from the Black Caps. His old school coach from 20 years ago reflects on the cricket star's career and just how far he's come…

The station was one of several city buildings designed by Kevin O'Connor and Associates found to have potential deficiencies.

John Richard Corkran is accused of injecting patients aged under 16 at the hospital's child and adolescent unit with paralysing drugs as punishment.

A teen jailed for her part in the violent home invasion of a 90-year-old Levin woman, who died weeks later of a brain injury, now claims she was not the one who inflicted the fatal blows.

The fondly remembered Silver Fern railcars were the height of luxury, gliding between Auckland and Wellington in the 1970s and 1980s.

Forestry slash and mud litter properties after destructive torrent of water destroys road and leaves 48 homes flooded.

Two overgrown former bowling greens in Palmerston North are at the centre of a land-use debate pitting housing advocates against green-space defenders.

The clean-up has begun in Manawatū after the second dump of torrential rain within three days left properties damaged, roads and bridges washed out, and nerves frayed.

An 89-year-old man charged with injecting adolescent patients with a paralysing drug at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital in the 1970s has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of ill-treating children.

The former patient says the decision to lay charges meant it finally felt as if survivors were listened to.