Latest from Wairarapa region

Plane buffs are devastated after bad weather forced the cancellation of Wings Over Wairarapa, but none more so than the organisers.

Wings Over Wairarapa organisers say they are gutted to announce that today's air festival and night shows will be cancelled due to bad weather.

Heavy rain has undermined part of State Highway 53 near the bridge over the Tauherenikau River.

A woman has died and another is seriously injured after a two-car crash on a bridge near Eketahuna this morning.

Central and southern New Zealand to bear brunt of heavy rain and severe gales.

Two people escaped serious injury after their car and caravan veered off the road and crashed down a bank yesterday afternoon.

The name of the Filipino fisherman who was washed out to sea yesterday has been released.

A search and rescue operation is underway for a man who's been swept out to sea at Lake Ferry in the Wairarapa this afternoon.

A body has been located in the Tora bush, believed to be that of a missing hunter.

Rain and possibly thunder and lightning are expected to lash parts of the country again as MetService issues a severe weather watch for Manawatu down to Buller.

Chronically ill former Carterton mayor and Wairarapa MP Georgina Beyer has set her sights on returning to Wairarapa - dead or alive.

Three liquor outlets in the Tararua District have come under fire for selling alcohol to underage teens, despite being shown their correct ID.

Virginian couple had been honeymooning in New Zealand for just five days when husband was killed in a Wairarapa car crash.

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

'I asked him how many Panadol he had taken and he said lots,' mother says of incident last year.

It's hard to put a price on a piece of Wairarapa history, but for the freshly marketed Carrington House, valuers say it would cost just under $4m to rebuild it.

Two men have been arrested and charged with the armed robbery of two women in Masterton on Wednesday night.

Police have arrested two men in relation to the aggravated robbery in Masterton yesterday.

A man convicted of historic sex charges has had his jail term increased after failing to pay court-ordered reparation to his victims.

Tracy Yeats hopes Govt will take notice of a survey which shows overwhelming support for legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use.

Troubled former All Black Zac Guildford will be back on familiar territory when he arrives in South Featherston to live with grandparents Frank and June Burt.

A jersey signed by the late Jerry Collins is to be auctioned, with funds raised to be given to Collins' baby daughter Ayla.

Increasingly worried pea crop farmers have been given alternatives to help escape the "crisis" brought on by the discovery of the pea weevil in Wairarapa.

The trust which has been running Wairarapa's beleaguered all-weather athletics track in Masterton has voted itself out of existence

Drivers who fail to indicate or give way are being warned to look out. Police will be cracking down on bad driving in Masterton next

A business-savvy traveller from China has chosen Masterton as his new home and the base of a new tour group company. The father of

High winds wreaked havoc throughout Wairarapa over the weekend, tearing down trees, flattening fences and knocking out power around

Carterton and Greytown will do battle in the final of the Wairarapa-Bush Rugby Union's Tui Cup premier division competition next weekend. They