Stories by Robin Martin

A group of Taranaki school children enjoying a crash course in kiwi tracking in Te Papakura o Taranaki have been let in on a secret... a chick is on the way.

The Taranaki District Health Board has a Covid 'surge' plan in place that would enable it to cater for nine ventilated ICU patients and up to 60 in-patients.

The mayor of New Plymouth has found himself at odds with the Taranaki Public Health Unit over modelling of the potential impact of a delta outbreak in the province.

One of the last stretches of unsealed state highway in the country is now a step closer to being smothered in tarmac.

Lockdown and the power of poetry are being credited for the Whanganui pound re-homing a record number of dogs this year.

A Taranaki shipping agent is fuming that an injured seafarer has been unable to get medical treatment in New Plymouth over Covid-19 fears and instead arrangements are being made to fly him back to…

With events being struck from the calendar all around them, the Taranaki Garden Festival has defied the odds to get to the start line today.

After months of unsuccessfully trying to get a space in MIQ, four Kiwis are on a 40ft yacht taking a 2200 nautical mile trip from Tahiti to Opua.

A deal has been done to set up the first managed isolation and quarantine service in Taranaki.

Organisers of the Womad festival in Taranaki say the event next March will be just as fantastic as any other year.

The Covid-19 vaccination programme in Taranaki may need to rollover into next year to get Māori in the region up beyond a 90 percent vaccination rate.

Earlier this week, only 24 percent of Taranaki Māori were fully vaccinated while just under 40 percent of the general population had both jabs - two of the lowest rates in the country.

Taranaki has rolled out "aunties power" as it ramps up efforts to boost the Māori vaccination rate in the province.

Official emails reveal the Taranaki District Health Board worried crew members could die and a humanitarian crisis unfold on deep-sea fishing vessels with Covid-19 on board which had contact with the…

There's been a bittersweet reaction to a King Country man and his three children walking out of the bush alive with many asking how could the situation have arisen.

Trans-Tasman Resources has lost its Supreme Court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of South Taranaki.

New Plymouth's vaccination centre threw out the appointment book and put on breakfast for anyone getting a jab between 7am and 9am.

An initiative to get people vaccinated against Covid-19 in New Plymouth this morning using the lure of a free bacon buttie is being hailed a success.

The revelation after the agency said no roosts or potential roosts of the endangered long-tail bat would be disturbed before the Mt Messenger bypass got the green light.

In an effort to boost vaccination rates the Taranaki District Health Board is adding a bit of sizzle to help make getting the vaccine a bit more appetising.

Horticulture is making a comeback in Taranaki, where avocado and kiwifruit orchards are being planted in numbers not seen since 1988.

Neighbours of a controversial composting and worm farming business in North Taranaki have had their noses put out of joint by a regional councillor questioning whether their olfactory organs are…

The boss of a New Plymouth vet clinic is being hailed as a conservation hero for being the go-to-guy for nursing injured native birds back to health.

Energy bosses say proposed legislation, designed to tighten rules around the decommissioning of oil and gas wells, risks creating a shortfall in electricity generation.

An iwi representative at the Taranaki Regional Council has accused its director of resource management of blocking proper consultation of consents applications.