Manawatū

One of Palmerston North's Macdermid brood, instead of two, could be among the medals at the 41st National Secondary Schools Cross-Country Championships at Massey University today.

The girls chasing Awatapu College sisters Kara and Zia Macdermid didn't even see their clean pair of heels in the Manawatū secondary schools' cross-country, last Wednesday.

Two boys were flown to hospital at the weekend after being injured in a rugby match played at the same high school where a Palmerston North boy was seriously injured last month.

A recently-retired Feilding school principal says he is embarrassed by the accolades which have been handed to him in the past year.

The last registrar of the Feilding courthouse has been honoured for decades of service to the justice process.

A woman who has improved education for Pacific children has been awarded the highest honour of any Manawatū resident in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Missing Rangitīkei man Stephen Walker has been found alive in a hay barn, more than a week after he disappeared.

Don't blink. Yes, the Manawatū Turbos will be taking on the Hurricanes in Palmerston North next month.