Jimmy Ellingham

Parents rushing their sick children to Palmerston North Hospital's under-pressure emergency department will soon be able sit away from the weekend drunks and other distractions.

Design work has begun… Audio

While the Black Caps foundered in Australia, another New Zealand cricket team was sweeping all before it across the Tasman.

The national over-60s men's team has made today's final of the veterans'… Audio

New Zealand's over-60s cricket team has its eye on the first ever veterans' world cup trophy. The senior squad has qualified for the final against Paksitan today. Andrew Nuttall is part of the New… Audio

The North Island town of Bulls is the epitome of local government apathy.

Its district councillors have been elected unopposed and turnout in a recent by-election was barely over 15 percent.

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Palmerston North has a poo problem. Every evening thousands of birds fly into the centre of the city to sleep for the night, and their droppings fall on unsuspecting parked cars and pedestrians.

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Wellington businesses whose takings were crippled by the Parliamentary occupation earlier this year feared another slow day because of the protest yesterday.

In the end takings were down, but the… Audio

Mark Lundy has been denied parole today after serving his minimum term of 20 years for the August 2000 murders of his wife Christine and daughter Amber in Palmerston North.

At Tongariro Prison today… Video, Audio

The Environment Minister David Parker has opened the Ohakea Rural Water Scheme, ending years of uncertainty for local residents. In 2017, households near the Manawatu town of Sanson were told their… Audio

One of three teenage girls involved in the violent home invasion of a 90-year-old Levin woman, who later died of her injuries, is back in court, charged with robbery.

Grace Virtue died 25 days after… Audio

A watchdog group has discovered that a former patient of Lake Alice's child and adolescent unit was just five when he was sent to the notorious psychatric hospital near Marton.

The man's medical… Audio

A street in Levin remains cordoned off this morning as police deal with what they're calling an "ongoing incident" which resulted in the evacuation of many of the street's residents last night.

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The construction of a new highway between Manawatū and Hawke's Bay is facing Covid-19 disruption and wet winter weather.

But those in charge of the long-awaited route over the hills say progress is… Audio

New Zealand athletes are heading to England to prepare for this year's Commonwealth Games.

These days they're an important date on the sporting calendar, but in the past they were as much about… Audio

The old State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge is closed to traffic for good - but it may be given a new life for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

The road was closed because of potential… Audio

A man who died of an aggressive form of asbestos-related cancer was not eligible for substantial ACC compensation, simply because he hadn't signed a piece of paper.

But the man's partner says they… Audio

For more than two weeks an inquest into the death of a Palmerston North mental health ward patient has examined events leading to his suspected suicide.

Today, the hearing was told about a different… Audio