Stories by Jimmy Ellingham

The Parole Board has been told about how Covid-19 restrictions are affecting a convicted murderer who has spent more than 15 years behind bars.

The $620m project, due to open in late 2024, will replace narrow, windy routes motorists have been forced to endure since slips closed State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge.

Palmerston North's grand Edwardian former post office is now a crumbling eyesore, and its owner has rebuffed council efforts to spruce it up.

Before packed houses of 40,000 people every day for just over a week at Eden Park, Empire Games athletes battled for imperial pride.

Former Lake Alice patient Malcolm Richards, 62, does not want to wait any longer for compensation for the treatment he endured.

The old State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge is closed to traffic for good, but it may be given a new life for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

No traffic lights, no tar seal and an 80 km/h speed limit - that's driving Chatham Islands style.

A man who died of an aggressive form of asbestos-related cancer was not eligible for substantial ACC compensation because he didn't sign a piece of paper.

Health officials in Palmerston North are reviewing workplace safety concerns raised by stressed nurses in the city hospital's emergency department.

The police's third investigation into allegations of abuse at the psychiatric hospital's child and adolescent unit found 136 former patients who had received such shocks.

The UN committee against torture has urged the government to compensate a former patient of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital and criticised a failure to charge anyone over allegations of…

Forty years ago this week on a flight from London to Auckland the unthinkable happened.

A year after the death of a man who fell or jumped out a Palmerston North Hospital window, his family are still waiting for someone take responsibility.

A convicted murderer who fatally shot a man over a drug deal gone wrong has failed in his latest bid for an early release from jail.

State housing provider Kāinga Ora will soon apply for resource consent to build more than 60 homes on a 10,000-square-metre site in central Palmerston North.

For more than two weeks an inquest into the death of a Palmerston North mental health ward patient has examined events leading to his suspected suicide.

New safety barriers alongside a state highway near the Horowhenua town of Levin are making residents feel anything but safe.

A man who abducted a five-year-old girl off the street in Palmerston North and indecently assaulted her in 2016 has yet to begin psychological treatment in prison.

A former nurse at the Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward says the working environment was chaotic, and it did not improve in the years after two patients died there in 2014.

The queue to get into a popular Palmerston North secondhand book sale formed before dawn.

Unlike some of their Levin neighbours, the Fonoti family can stay in their house despite the tornado damage.

New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom is calling for an independent review into the way roads are funded in New Zealand, saying something must be done before the network gets worse.

A nurse caring for a patient who died in a suspected suicide did not check on him for an hour before he was found unresponsive.

The inquest into the suspected suicide of a Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward patient eight years ago has begun, with the coroner acknowledging the delay in the matter reaching a hearing.

The inquest into the suspected suicide of a Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward patient more than eight years ago is starting today.