The changing face of healthcare
Empty waiting rooms, screening at the clinic door and diagnosis by telephone are the new normal in the health sector.
Manawatū travellers arrive home
Thirty-two people, recently returned from overseas, touched down in Palmerston North after isolating in Auckland hotels.
Two more coronavirus cases for region
MidCentral District Health Board has recorded 28 Covid-19 cases within its boundaries; no-one in hospital with the virus.
Last Post must go on
A Feilding musician is determined to remember our fallen soldiers despite the cancellation of Anzac services.
Rates rise may be shelved
Horizons Regional Council is looking at options to ease the coronavirus burden on ratepayers.
Kids going hungry in lockdown
A principal says she keeps getting calls from crying parents: "I don’t have enough food to feed my kids."
Changes irk Massey students
Some students remaining on a Palmerston North university campus claim they haven't been properly informed over catering changes.
City council performs technology U-turn
Just weeks after shunning modern meeting methods, councillors have convened over audio-visual links.
Paddock bear livens lockdown
If truck drivers and essential workers go down to State Highway 56 today they're in for a big surprise.
MidCentral's Covid-19 tally rises
Twenty-six people within MidCentral health's boundaries have coronavirus, but nobody is in hospital.
Stranded tourist eyes exit
Robert Ruidisth should be hiking Mt Cook. Instead, he's stranded at a rural backpackers - and loving it.
Student paying up to $400 a week
Some students who returned home for the coronavirus lockdown are still having to pay hundreds a week for university accommodation.
Town centre stays quiet
As police officers patrol empty streets around New Zealand, Feilding, too, is under close watch.
'Driveway 1000' raises funds for hospice
Homebound running club beats the pavement to raise money for Arohanui Hospice.
Dad separated from premature baby
Phoebe McLeod was born at 26 weeks in Wellington Hospital. It could be weeks before her father is allowed to visit her.
Parenting tips for coronavirus lockdown
Children need reassurance and routine to help them adjust to locked down living, a psychologist says.
Bird poisonings could be deliberate
Toxicology tests on poisoned seagulls have ruled out them dying of an infectious disease, instead raising a more sinister possibility.
From wealth to health: A story of transmission
OPINION: For the first time in my lifetime we are taking viral transmission seriously, as an entire community.
Goal-setting lacks clarity
OPINION: How did we go from trying to "flatten the curve" to an objective of elimination in under a week?
Fair go, Fair Go, you're repeating shows
Despite the excessive recycling of content, there are some memorable highlights, writes Malcolm Hopwood.
Justice for Laumape at last
OPINION: At long last he has locked down the No 12 jersey in a New Zealand rugby team. Shame it's only on paper.
A visual distraction most grand
The open road, with scenic New Zealand in our sights, proved a soulful pre-lockdown adventure.
From mystical clearing to 'village green'
Every place has its defining feature. For Palmerston North, it's The Square.
Classic Cockney caper goes like the clappers
Nostalgia is seldom as contemporary as the top-class Boys' High-Girls' High production Me and My Girl.
Goldberg gold
The NZ Symphony Orchestra provided a rare and immensely satisfying concert performance of a monumental opus from the height of the Baroque period.
Potshots hit the bullseye
This freewheeling Harry Potter frolic has more hoots than a hedgerow of Hedwigs.
Midsummer mayhem
Open access to Shakespeare is seldom more engaging than Twelfth Night at the Esplanade rose gardens.
