Stories by Moana Ellis

After decades away, one of the last survivors of the historic Hatrick riverboat fleet has returned to the awa.

Whanganui District Council is backing a forecast for high population growth as a starting point for its next 10-year plan.

Rates in some of the poorest areas of Whanganui will increase by nearly 20 percent, while affluent suburbs will see rates rise only 0.5 percent on average.

Rates in Whanganui will rise an average 8.3 percent following the adoption of Whanganui District Council's annual plan on Tuesday.

Whanganui District Council has voted to keep the aviary at Rotokawau Virginia Lake open, despite heartfelt opposition from several councillors concerned about the birds' welfare.

A new process for handing over the spiritual component of Te Matatini - the premier event for Māori performing arts - has been enacted at Rātana Pā.

A Whanganui resident says flooding danger in the riverside marae community of Pūtiki is a tragedy waiting to happen.

A delegation of Whanganui River Māori is travelling to the United States to support North American Indigenous leaders and tribes of the under-threat Colorado River.

Te Tai Hauāuru MP and Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe will not stand for the Māori electorate in October's general election and will instead move to the Labour Party list.

Climate change has become a critical focus for Māori agribusiness Ātihau-Whanganuiorporation. It has set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent before 2028. The collective of…

The cost of rural rail transport must drop, Ruapehu mayor Weston Kirton says, as Taumarunui reinstated as a stop on the main trunk line.

Paul Diamond spent 18 years "searching for traces" of the circumstances surrounding the sensational 1920 shooting in Whanganui of returned soldier and poet Walter D'Arcy Cresswell by Whanganui mayor…

A flight school in Whanganui is expecting to more than double its number of trainee pilots within the next year.

The tragic and scandalous story of a 1920s shooting, a blackmailer, and a mayor outed as homosexual is being revived as part of Aotearoa's LGBTQI history.

More than 300 people turned out to a community meeting in Whanganui last night to fight plans to sell water from an artesian bore near Whanganui River.

For the first time in its history, women in New Zealand's Parliament will have an equal share of seats in the House.

The impact of Covid-19 on Māori will be under the spotlight in new research that aims to improve future pandemic responses.

Local government newcomer Andrew Tripe has ousted two-term mayor Hamish McDouall and will lead a Whanganui council that has gender equality.

Māori are being urged to get their local government voting papers in as soon as possible, with voting closing at 12pm this Saturday.

A Whanganui iwi leader says a plan to extract and sell 750,000 litres a week of groundwater from a bore near the Whanganui River is stealing and confiscation.

Nearly 100 people have found jobs as part of the Whanganui port upgrade Te Pūwaha.

Mayoral hopefuls in Ruapehu and Rangitīkei are overwhelmingly in support of Māori wards but the three Whanganui contenders are divided, according to a new survey canvassing all 291 mayoral candidates…

A mayoral candidate has been released from prison after serving a sentence he evaded for years.

The Whanganui police area commander says plans for a new police hub are progressing and a revised completion date will soon be set.

Scott Phillips is satanist and an "extreme wedding" celebrant. He's also standing for Whanganui District Council.