Whanganui

The mayor of Whanganui district Annette Main is with us. Audio

Brent Manning is from the South Taranaki District Council. Audio

45 kilometres up the Whanganui River, the O'Hagan farming family at Operiki Station were split up by slips that they're expecting will keep them cut off for a month. Audio

Helicopters have been flying all day over flood-ravaged Whanganui and Taranaki, evacuating pregnant women and others with babies, and ferrying in food and generators to farms that may be cut off for a… Audio

The Transport Agency's regional performance manager, Mark Owen, is on the line. Audio

Shane Bayley is Civil Defence's national controller. Audio

At least 800 households are without power, dozens of roads remain closed and the East of Whanganui is cut off after the city's biggest ever flooding. Audio

Nikki Kaye is the Civil Defence Minister, she says the Government and local government officials will be looking at whether infrastructure is up to the task but those talks can wait. Audio

The Horizons Regional Council will meet this morning to decide how long to keep the state of emergency in place in Whanganui. Audio

The Whanganui District Council's mayor, Annette Main, says she is most concerned about the hundreds of people who have been completely cut off in the east of the city. Audio

Whanganui is facing the fallout from the city's biggest ever flooding. Authorities will decide later this morning whether to keep the state of local emergency in place. Audio

Authorities in the Whanganui region will meet at ten o'clock this morning to decide how much longer to keep a state of local emergency remains in place. Audio

A state of local emergency remains in place in the Whanganui region after the district's worst recorded flood. An evacuation centre has been open all night for almost 320 evacuees who don't know when… Audio

As many as 100 water-logged homes along Wanganui's Anzac Parade could remain inaccessible until next week. The city was cut off for a time after wild weather closed access to the north and south on… Audio

Whanganui District Civil Defence and Emergency Management Controller Kevin Ross on the area's worst floods on record. Audio

Top students from secondary and tertiary institutions gather to compete for first place in a speech competition - in Chinese. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets students from around the North Island to see who… Audio, Gallery

Whanganui is to push ahead with plans to sell its pensioner flats. Audio

A hit-and-run driver's suffered a fiery death avoiding police road spikes in Whanganui. Audio

Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers. Audio