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  •   Home > News > National >  Subscribe to NZCity's Lower North Island articles  Lower North Island
    Police continue to swarm Levin as they investigate a spate of gang-related shootings in the town earlier this week
     24 August 2025
    Police continue to swarm Levin as they investigate a spate of gang-related shootings in the town earlier this week
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    The full Hawke's Bay trails network has reopened for the public, after a two-year rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle
    23 Aug 2025: The full Hawke's Bay trails network has reopened for the public, after a two-year rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle... more
    A person's died at a school in Levin
    20 Aug 2025: A person's died at a school in Levin... more
    A call for witnesses - to a man being assaulted and robbed in Palmerston North by three men about 9.40 last Thursday night - on the corner of Linton and Church streets
    18 Aug 2025: A call for witnesses - to a man being assaulted and robbed in Palmerston North by three men about 9.40 last Thursday night - on the corner of Linton and Church streets... more
    A 26-year-old is due in court today following a house fire in Palmerston North yesterday
    18 Aug 2025: A 26-year-old is due in court today following a house fire in Palmerston North yesterday... more
    Three crews are battling a house fire on Palmerston North's Main Street
    17 Aug 2025: Three crews are battling a house fire on Palmerston North's Main Street... more
    To provincial rugby ... on Gold Sport ..
    16 Aug 2025: To provincial rugby ... on Gold Sport ..... more
    The Southland Stags have scored 29 unanswered second half points to stun Manawatu 29-22 in their NPC rugby contest in Invercargill after trailing 22-nil at halftime
    16 Aug 2025: The Southland Stags have scored 29 unanswered second half points to stun Manawatu 29-22 in their NPC rugby contest in Invercargill after trailing 22-nil at halftime... more
    A magnitude 4.8 earthquake's shaken Hastings - just before 6pm
    13 Aug 2025: A magnitude 4.8 earthquake's shaken Hastings - just before 6pm... more
    Two people have been arrested during coordinated simultaneous drug and firearms busts in Manawatu and Auckland
    11 Aug 2025: Two people have been arrested during coordinated simultaneous drug and firearms busts in Manawatu and Auckland... more

     Most Popular Recent Lower North Island News
     11 Feb: Devastation in Hawke's Bay's Wairoa over a fatal school bus crash yesterday, that killed one and critically injured two others ++++++++++++++
     09 Feb: Police are treating the discovery of a 64-year-old woman's body at a worksite on Taihape Road 0 in Omahu - near Hastings last week, as a homicide ++++++++++++
     04 Feb: Police are urging anyone who may have witnessed a fatal assault outside a Napier nightclub, to come forward ++++++++++
     03 Feb: Police have launched an investigation after a body was found at a work site in Omahu near Hastings ++++++++++
     27 Jan: Thousands of people have reported feeling a magnitude 4.5 earthquake near the capital this afternoon +++++++++
     15 Feb: Residents due to be hit by heavy rain and severe gales are being warned to act now +++++++++
     23 Jan: A high police presence will be visible in Masterton today for a gang-related funeral ++++++++

     Lower North Island NewsLinks
      20 Feb: Confusion over who is meant to deal with ongoing power cuts (RadioNZ)
      18 Feb: Wellington and lower north island still without power days after weather bomb (RadioNZ)
      17 Feb: Live weather: river breaches banks, floods close highways in canterbury (RadioNZ)
      17 Feb: Live weather: floods close roads around banks peninsula as downpour moves south (RadioNZ)
      16 Feb: Lower north island communities cut off by ‘unprecedented’ flooding (Stuff.co.nz)
      16 Feb: ‘we just couldn’t cope’: residents dig out drains after lower hutt suburb submerged by flooding (Stuff.co.nz)
      16 Feb: Winds gust to 240km/h on lower north island's east coast (RadioNZ)
      16 Feb: Wind gusts measuring up to 240km/h recorded on lower north island's east coast (RadioNZ)
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