Stories by Robin Martin

It has been dubbed the "little butchery in the middle of nowhere" - a traditional German sausage outlet that is stopping traffic in remote North Taranaki.

Waka Kotahi has discontinued its practice of filling potential long-tail bat roosts in the path of the Mt Messenger bypass route with builder's foam.

The most visible political wannabe in New Plymouth is keeping ratepayers guessing about whether he'll actually stand for mayor or not.

Four Taranaki teenagers are hoping to carve up the opposition at the world junior surf champs in El Salvador this month.

A watchdog group has rejected a proposal to increase the capacity at the Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth - which includes potentially covering its iconic lake.

A lawyer representing the whānau of a Taranaki man shot and killed by police says their statements about the incident are insensitive.

An expert in natural hazard planning says the government needs to buy out residents in flood-prone areas such as Anzac Parade in Whanganui, or risk people losing their lives.

Questions are being asked about whether 30 hectares of native forest really needs to be felled to make way for a long-awaited bypass in northern Taranaki.

A lifelong friend of a man shot and killed by police in Taranaki two years ago says he was shocked to hear of another fatal shooting.

South Taranaki appears well placed to bounce back from Covid-19 after dodging the worst of the disruption caused by the virus.

A University of Auckland epidemiologist wants pharmacies to be doing RATs, to improve the accuracy of tests and better capture the results.

An environmentalist says a decision to allow an oil and gas company to search off the coast of Taranaki shows the 2018 exploration ban is not genuine.

An environmental group is hoping visitors will flock to a multimillion dollar wildlife centre planned for Inglewood.

A Taranaki school's decision to test opinion on changing the names of its classroom blocks has caused a stir.

The Omicron outbreak is causing visitor spending to tank in Taranaki after it held its own during earlier stages of the pandemic.

Taranaki has been averaging more than 600 new Covid-19 cases a day and there are about 4500 active cases in the community - 10 percent of which need support to isolate safely.

Health authorities are hoping to apply lessons learned during the Covid-19 vaccination rollout to boost the country's faltering childhood immunisation programme.

A controversial North Taranaki composting and worm farming business has flunked its latest environmental monitoring report.

OMV says its in-fill drilling campaign at Māui A off the coast of Taranaki has almost doubled 2021 production levels, making it the country's largest gas field once more.

An energy sector lobby group says applying the Crown Minerals (Amendment) Act retrospectively to deals done years ago is 'bad public policy'.

While attention is focused on the protest at Parliament grounds, Covid-19 vaccinators have been busy delivering booster shots and inoculating under 12 year olds.

A New Plymouth mayoral candidate is heading back to the protest at Parliament this weekend - saying he wants to be "part of history". A fellow councillor is also at the protest and says it's an…

A $3 million clean-up operation to remove highly toxic dioxin from the New Plymouth wastewater treatment plant has sparked calls for an investigation into where else the compound may be lurking.

Damage from ex-tropical Cyclone Dovi has left people stranded in their homes, while power outages are affecting farms and schools.

In its first year of operation Ara Ake - the national future energy centre - burnt through two thirds of its annual revenue, that's $1.7m, in salaries, directors fees and consultants.