Stories by Jimmy Ellingham

Lego land is replacing limbo land this weekend in Palmerston North.

The forecast hot, dry El Niño summer is placing extra stress on farmers battered by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Massey University is forecasting a loss of more than $50 million this year, but is not saying how it sank into a financial hole.

Tourism operators in Franz Josef are confident summer will herald a boon for the region, which was hit hard by Covid-19 lockdowns.

Levin residents who have heard from Winston Peters on the campaign trail are betting he will be back in the Beehive before long, and say they want to see him champion the issues others will not.

A Palmerston North teenager must make an expensive trip to London for two operations after he suffered a severe brain bleed more than two months ago.

Police had been preparing charges against the former lead psychiatrist at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital, before it was deemed he was too ill to face trial, documents reveal.

A rural primary school closing its doors is a victim of cost of living pressures, its principal says.

Little Stars in Palmerston North is the brainchild of a family who know only too well what access to therapy at an early age can do.

NZ's district courts are still feeling the lingering effects of Covid-19, as the justice system clogs with cases - More than 140,000 court appearances have been delayed since March 2020.

One of New Zealand's most intriguing cricket mysteries is how Rodney Redmond could score a test 100 on debut and never play for his country again. Video, Audio

Brendan Paul Henson said he was making progress before the sessions stopped, ahead of his expected release in February.

Massey University staff fearing for their careers and the quality of education on offer have made a personal plea to management to stop the cuts. Audio

Officials say they have made progress on UN orders to provide compensation and apologies, but one of the two former patients, Malcolm Richards, disagrees.

Eddie Chapman turned 100 today, quite an achievement for a man who spent his 21st birthday in a German prisoner of war camp.

Wearing secondhand clothes, making food last longer and free activities for the children are some of the ways people are coping with the cost-of-living crunch.

On Wednesday afternoon the Horowhenua Kāpiti rugby team take on the might of Wellington in a David versus Goliath Ranfurly Shield clash in Levin.

For more than three decades motorists on State Highway 1 through the central North Island couldn't miss the old aeroplane on the side of the road at Mangaweka.

A former patient of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital says while he can't tell the court about his experience there, his story is an important reminder of the need to investigate claims of… Audio

After Cyclone Gabrielle struck Hawke's Bay, a country pub became a bustling community centre for locals needing to sort their lives.

Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Mururoa Atoll, in French Polynesia. Little did they know that the fallout would continue decades later.

After a $5m guarantee from the government just ahead of the busy school holiday fortnight, all that's needed is snow - but the forecast suggests this will arrive too.

It seems no one will ever be convicted for the abuse of patients at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's notorious child and adolescent unit.

Two teenagers escaped from a youth justice residence when scaffolding was erected too close to a fence during a teaching exercise, giving the runaways a step up to freedom.

Thirty-nine Kiwi athletes are on Wednesday boarding a plane for Berlin to compete in the Special Olympics.