District councilors in Wanganui, New Zealand, have voted to allow the citizens to decide whether the city's name should instead be spelled Whanganui. The councilors decided Monday to put the question to the voters after the local Geographic Board said 10 days earlier that the current spelling, which

MICHAEL LAWS says a "scungy" entrance is sabotaging tourism for his city. A straight run past bland farms and over a plain concrete bridge flanked by industrial land, the southern approach to Wanganui is a poor gateway to a city famed for its river and architecture.

By WILLIAMS, Bob ALGAL bloom is not the only issue troubling the waters at Virginia Lake in Wanganui.

By RANKIN, Janine Wanganui's shortage of obstetricians and gynaecologists is starting to place a strain on Palmerston North Hospital's women's health unit.