Stories by Jimmy Ellingham

Growers are pleading with the government for a recovery package after Cyclone Gabrielle turned vast swathes of fertile land into pulp.

The tall stalks and black heads of plantain could help clean up the country's waterways, according to a dairy industry trial.

When Karen Gunn walked off London's famous cricket ground, Lord's, in 1993 the New Zealand women's team she was part of had just lost a world cup final to England.

A man who killed his cellmate at Manawatū Prison near Palmerston North will be detained in hospital as a special patient under mental health compulsory treatment laws.

A Palmerston North-based researcher is looking into how milk products can bring the most nutritional benefit to infants.

The father of a 19-year-old patient who died in a suspected suicide at Palmerston North Hospital's mental health ward is worried that a replacement facility will not open for more than two years.

Getting lost in a good book isn't always possible for people who can't get to their local library because of mobility problems.

Work on the new highway between Manawatū and Hawke's Bay is halfway done. Video

A year ago flash floods left many Manawatū homes waterlogged and covered in debris.

Torture, sexual, physical, emotional and psychological abuse has been spelled out in the nearly 500-page report.

The aging fleet of P3 Orions - costing $2.3 billion - are going out of service quicker than expected.

Some 700 Ukrainian civilian volunteers and conscripts have been trained up to join their armed forces by New Zealand soldiers in the UK.

It is now a year since a Royal Commission recommended the immediate introduction of an interim redress scheme.

After parents of newborn twins were told one of their daughters would die, medical staff suggested turning off the machines keeping their other child alive.

Inspired by the annual Black Clash of rugby and cricket stars, a Manawatū school is staging its own Twenty20 battle for its big sporting names.

Massey University staff battling over wages and job cuts are furious the vice-chancellor's pay has jumped 18 percent this year.

Non-academic staff at Massey University are fighting proposals to cut more than 70 jobs across campuses, and substantially alter other roles.

New critical care units at Palmerston North Hospital could be more than seven years away, despite concerns about intensive care being raised more than a decade ago.

More than two years after the sudden death of her husband at Palmerston North Hospital, a Manawatū woman is still waiting for answers about what happened.

A man charged with murdering his cellmate at Manawatū Prison near Palmerston North has been found unfit to stand trial.

The man at the centre of a 30-hour siege with armed police in Levin has thanked prison staff for saving his life in the aftermath.

Manawatū's notorious wind will power competitors at this week's Blokart World Championship and New Zealand Open competitions in the province.

A 70-year-old woman in remission from incurable cancer has won a promise from ACC that she won't have to battle for treatment when the disease inevitably comes back.

In the age of TikTok and shrinking attention spans one teen is bucking the stereotype by running a bookstore.

A former patient of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's child unit will ask the United Nations to come to New Zealand to investigate the government's response to a ruling that he was tortured.