Latest from Manawatu

Family escapes suspected Molotov cocktail fire

Soccer: Waitakere's youth squad at full strength

UN to probe abuses at psychiatric hospital

Company fined after river guide's death

A Manuwatu river rafting company has been ordered to pay $300,000 in fines after the 2007 drowning of an employee.

Driver's body recovered from wreckage

Truck driver killed in gorge named

NZ Windfarms chief exec resigns

Courier's first day results in conviction

Mistakes in Ruahine Range maps

Expect hotter weather this week

Name suppression decision attacked by Maori Party MPs

Party's MPs join chorus of condemnation at the permanent name suppression given to a Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of them picturing children.

Woman dies after van goes down bank

New inmates caught smuggling drugs into jail

Man jailed over ring theft he blamed on his son

Small quake hits town of Raetihi

Shark sightings force beach closures

Shark sightings around the country have forced beach closures more than 12 times this summer.

Infidelity rumours spark attack

Empty raft in river concerns police