The police officer who misled officials over the number of unresolved child abuse cases in the Wairarapa has since been promoted.

The IPCA has released the second part of its report into the handling of child abuse cases by police.

While summer continues to roll on, the fashionable tipple should still be rosé. No one is quite sure what is behind the rise and rise of this previously lowly ranked style, but it's popping up all over the place.

A police search and rescue team looking for missing Pahiatua man John Campbell have found a body. Mr Campbell, 64, was last seen leaving his Pahiatua home, in the Tararua district, for work at 6.45am yesterday.

Fire crews battling a scrub fire have evacuated residents at Mangatoetoe.

Firefighters have contained a large scrub fire in Masterton which was burning on about six hectares of land.

Electricity has been restored to the 5500 Wairarapa households that suffered power cuts after strong winds snapped power poles yesterday.

One of the winners of New Zealand's largest ever lottery prize has died.

A former Marist teaching brother was today found guilty of 11 historic sex offences by a jury in the High Court at Wellington.