Whanganui

A new mental health crisis response team will be established in Whanganui with $3.5 million from the Proceeds of Crime Fund.

The amount of cargo being shipped through Whanganui is set to triple with new investment to boost coastal shipping around the country.

Whanganui District Council has delegated the city's Mayor to lobby for a Green Party member's Bill to reduce alcohol harm.

A flock of 52 pōpokotea whiteheads have been reintroduced to a Whanganui predator-free sanctuary.

Iwi say they are fed up with being wrongly accused of being a barrier to progress.

Police say a woman who was missing from Rangataua near Ohakune since Sunday has been found safe and well.

Greypower's Horowhenua president is disappointed a teenager jailed for the manslaughter of Grace Virtue will be released on parole next month.

An expert in natural hazard planning says the government needs to buy out residents in flood-prone areas such as Anzac Parade in Whanganui, or risk people losing their lives.

The number of people with Covid-19 in Whanganui Hospital is climbing as the hospital also deals with a growing number of cases among staff.

An iwi collective working across four North Island regions fears there are many cases they don't know about.

The Department of Conservation has closed the Whanganui River to kayakers and canoeists on the upper and middle reaches after four paddlers tested positive for Covid-19.

The new spending will help with the management of deer and other predators at the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forest Parks.

Covid-19 is continuing its spread into central and western parts of the North Island, with active cases now confirmed in Rangitīkei, Whanganui and the Ruapehu district.

Eleven new Covid-19 cases have been found in the rural Rangitīkei area of Marton, bringing the number of active cases in the Marton outbreak to 20.

Māori health providers are holding back on Covid-19 vaccinations for children in the face of growing anti-vaxxer protest in the wider Whanganui region.

An iwi is searching for a storage area for food and basic supplies as it prepares to support the Whanganui community through the widely expected Omicron outbreak.

A Covid-19 Māori health analyst is calling on the government to prioritise Māori and Pasifika children in the 5-11 years vaccine rollout or risk the consequences of a "brown pandemic".

Whanganui iwi Tūpoho is opening the region's first Covid-19 saliva testing clinic tomorrow, as part of a community approach it hopes will be picked up around the country.

Whanganui list MP Harete Hipango posted pictures of herself on Facebook at a rally in her electorate.