Stories by Jimmy Ellingham

The station was one of several city buildings designed by Kevin O'Connor and Associates found to have potential deficiencies.

John Richard Corkran is accused of injecting patients aged under 16 at the hospital's child and adolescent unit with paralysing drugs as punishment.

A teen jailed for her part in the violent home invasion of a 90-year-old Levin woman, who died weeks later of a brain injury, now claims she was not the one who inflicted the fatal blows.

The fondly remembered Silver Fern railcars were the height of luxury, gliding between Auckland and Wellington in the 1970s and 1980s.

Forestry slash and mud litter properties after destructive torrent of water destroys road and leaves 48 homes flooded.

Two overgrown former bowling greens in Palmerston North are at the centre of a land-use debate pitting housing advocates against green-space defenders.

The clean-up has begun in Manawatū after the second dump of torrential rain within three days left properties damaged, roads and bridges washed out, and nerves frayed.

An 89-year-old man charged with injecting adolescent patients with a paralysing drug at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital in the 1970s has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of ill-treating children.

The former patient says the decision to lay charges meant it finally felt as if survivors were listened to.

A psychiatrist accused of torturing patients at the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit has failed to escape criticism from a Royal Commission.

Three women accused of flouting Covid-19 restrictions can now be named - they didn't turn up to court to argue why suppression should continue, and the judge said there was no reason to keep their…

Businesses in the Rangitīkei town of Bulls, near Palmerston North, are getting to grips with operating under red light restrictions from Friday.

The MidCentral District Health Board has been unable to fill a critical role despite advertising nationally and internationally, it says.

Plans are in place and now health officials in the MidCentral region are waiting to see if their preparation will be the bedrock to surviving a summer period of learning to live with Covid-19.

KiwiRail has outgrown its decades-old rail yard in Palmerston North and plans to transform 177 hectares of land to the north of the city into a 24-7 operation designed to accommodate trains up to 1.5…

Government documents uncovered from more than 20 years ago have shown Treasury earmarked more than $130 million to resolve legal claims from former patients of psychiatric institution Lake Alice.

The MidCentral District Health Board and local iwi are running mobile vaccination clinics to ensure people who can't get to town easily can still be vaccinated.

A man who attended a cricket training session in Palmerston North earlier this week has tested positive for Covid-19.

Testing sites in Woodville have been busy today following the discovery of two positive Covid-19 cases in the Tararua District town.

Former Lake Alice patients have spent decades waiting to see if their pleas for justice over the treatment they received are answered. Now, they are facing even further delays.

A woman accused of flouting Covid-19 restrictions by travelling to Auckland says her family has faced harassment since she was charged.

A new mental health ward at Palmerston North Hospital is in the final stages of its design and construction phase.

A coroner has opened an inquiry into the death of a mental health ward inpatient at Palmerston North Hospital over the weekend.

A woman, who allegedly died at the hands of a man on trial for her manslaughter, was found to have suffered 76 injuries, a court has been told.

A Taihape school has rejected the Ministry of Education's apology for taking its students' educational farm away - and accused it of incompetence and letting the farm's facilities degrade into a…