Season won't kick off until next weekend with a completely redone draw.

Dane Whale takes over from dad Kerry as Premier rugby kicks off.

Farmers urged to monitor facial eczema in livestock after sudden spike in spores.

Is Whanganui's most dangerous road getting worse?

Same teams, new grounds, new opportunities.

The annual Mataroa sheepdog trials took place at the weekend

A grand Whanganui home is to be sold for the just third time in 151 years.

Two businesses come to aid of dementia group struggling for funds

Hundreds fish Whanganui's South Beach, mainly kahawai and sharks caught

Gumboot champion is up for award

Fierce competition in shearing and woolhandling at the Taihape A & P Show

The Mokai Patea Waitangi Claims Trust takes parallel actions toward land claim settlement

The Whanganui coast is gasping for rain but inland farmers have had some good showers.

Rebuilding of the lookout tower on Mt Stewart is expected to start in new year.

Four Taihape teens are off to World rafting champs in Argentina.

A second round of thunderstorms are brewing after yesterday's downpours

All 13 killed when plane skidded then slammed into Mt Ruapehu in 1948.

Properties in hill country around Taihape could be without power for a week or longer.

Dan Mickleson has been praised for a Facebook post about mental health issues

Young farmer "astonished" at the response after sharing his struggle with depression.

How to Dad YouTube star Jordan Watson made a guest appearance at the gumboot throwing competition in Taihape - but did his skill with gumboot throwing match his skill in front of the camera? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Kopere Downs has been a shearer for 20 years, and now he's reached a major milestone. He has shorn his millionth sheep. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

This year, one of the centerpieces at alternative fesitval KiwiBurn was a giant weta, built in Auckland by a team of designers. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Former policeman Colin Mower is still ensuring Taihape people are safe. He has set up a dial-a-driver service for the town. It's

John Funnell was the search-and-rescue pilot who has saved the lives of thousands of victims, clocking up a staggering 19,000 hours of flight time.

Since starting as a nurse at Taihape Hospital aged 21, Judith MacDonald says she has been focused on the health of rural communities

A family who were told to get a bean bag for their son while he recovered from an operation are being reimbursed for a $2600 chair

A man may have been thrown from a car in an accident near Taihape in the early hours of this morning.