Car comes off second best after a collision with a tractor in a Palmerston North carpark.

Security footage captures the moment a stolen car is driven out of a car yard.

School boys give teacher who lost a battle with cancer a spine-chilling send off.

A band of youths use imitation weapons and a baseball bat in a violent dairy robbery.

A new study says international students are an "untapped opportunity" for NZ regions.

Six-year-old Eugene Mahauariki was flung from a carnival ride on Easter Monday.

Manawatu Police are investigating an assault.

Adrienne Pierce will take on Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway.

The man will appear in the Palmerston North District Court tomorrow.

As a result of the accident, traffic has been reduced to one lane.

About 71 people were on board a plane circling Palmerston North airport.

Chaos as Cyclone Debbie's tail hammers NZ with heavy rain.

Mourners in Palmerston North set upon man and son in ute with gang signage, witnesses say.

Father and 13yo son both received injuries that required hospital treatment.

Police say the man who died after during a police pursuit was a 26-year-old from Taupo.

Pursuit of motorcycle rider had ended before crash, police say.

Faraniko Pei was a desperate man when he walked into a Manawatu police station with a shotgun.

Edna Pei reveals in an exclusive interview, why her brother shot at police stations in Palmerston North in 2015. She says the MidCentral District Health Board pushed him over the edge. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The incidents took place half an hour apart on Friday evening.

A man who subjected two girls to vicious assaults on two separate occasions has been jailed.

South Island reporter Kurt Bayer has clinched fourth spot in the New Zealand Gumboot Throwing Championships.

Reporter Kurt Bayer sets his sights on taking on the best gumboot throwers in the country.

Teenage runaways have some explaining to do today.

The five Upper Hutt teenagers had been uncontactable to family members since last night.

More "wave clouds" have been spotted, this time in Christchurch.

A vehicle has crashed into a truck in Palmerston North tonight following a police chase.

A cold change sweeping up the South Island this afternoon has seen temperatures drop by double digits in 10 minutes.

Kurt Bayer went to the Gumboot Throwing Champs as a reporter, and left a champ.

Excited Bruce Springsteen fans have been spotting the music legend out and about in Auckland.

The Police Dive Squad has completed a search in the Manawatu River after a missing man's car was found parked nearby. Constable Gareth