Police investigating the slaying of farmer Scott Guy are following up reports of a woman trying to give away chocolate coloured Labrador puppies in a Palmerston North car park.

A dozen people have contacted police about a possible link between the murder of farmer Scott Guy and the theft of three puppies.

A woman's habit of buying a Lotto ticket in each new town she visits has paid off.

The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.

Two men are "pretty banged up" after their plane crashed in the Ruahine Ranges this afternoon.

Two men have survived a light plane crash in the Ruahine Ranges and have been taken to Palmerston North Hospital.

The dawn slaying of a Feilding dairy farmer in his driveway has left his shattered family struggling.

A young Manawatu dairy farmer shot dead in his driveway is now being treated as a homicide, police say.

The family of Feilding dairy farmer Scott Guy, whose death police are treating as suspicious, have paid tribute to him.

Police are treating the death of a man in Feilding as suspicious after his body was found in the Manawatu town this morning.

A man who left his baby son unattended in a car while he visited a Wellington strip club has admitted assaulting the child's mother.

A 25-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his brother in a fight, has had his name suppression order lifted.