Stories by Robin Martin

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the response to such appeals to break mandatory quarantine on compassionate grounds should not be an "automated" one.

Retailers and small outlets say economic activity under alert level 3 is doing very little to help their prospects of recovery.

Accommodation providers in Taranaki are seeing signs that domestic tourism could help them recover from the devastation caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus.

The dairy industry wants New Zealanders to fall back in love with life on the farm, with the migrant workforce unavailable due to Covid-19 and the sector needing to fill an estimated 1000 jobs in time…

A Taranaki business owner is warning leaseholders to read the fine print of their contracts after he was asked to pay his rent in full despite a clause in his lease allowing for a rent cut if he…

Staff at McDonald's in New Plymouth were braced for a rush this morning as NZers adjusted to Alert Level 3 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic - which for many meant a return to work.

A New Plymouth beauty salon owner is going the extra mile to save her business and her employees' jobs during the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic.

Opponents of a bid to mine millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of Taranaki say they will continue to fight the proposal.

Trans Tasman Resources says it is going to take its bid to mine millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of Taranaki to New Zealand's highest court.

New Zealand should follow Australia's decision to force Facebook and Google to pay for content generated by traditional news media companies, a media expert says.

Workers on OMV's Maui A platform are sacrificing being with their families, staying offshore for a month at a time while they work to keep gas flowing during the Covid-19 crisis.

New Plymouth residents are being warned to expect service cuts as the district reels from a decline in revenues post Covid-19.

More than 80 Taranaki doctors have signed up for a crash course in a skill they hope they will never have to use - how to put a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator.

The future of offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand in doubt after OMV announced today it is postponing drilling its Maui-8 exploration well indefinitely due to the Covid-19 crisis.

The High Court has ruled against a Singaporean firm which wants to disconnect its oil production vessel from the abandoned Tui oil field in offshore of Taranaki and leave capped pipelines on the ocean…

Noise complaints are dropping substantially. It's so quiet you can hear the earth move.

Hundreds of frustrated customers - some of them elderly - queued around the block at the New Plymouth headquarters of the TSB Bank when it opened this morning.

An environmental group says a Court of Appeal decision upholding a ruling preventing the mining of millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of Taranaki is a victory for the ocean.

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

A Hawke's Bay doctor says many assessment centres do not have enough swabs to meet demand for testing of Covid-19 after the government made a call for increased testing.

Independent butchers are hoping the government will let them reopen and say the window to save millions of dollars worth of product is closing.

A nationwide property management company is actively discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays to struggling tenants during the Covid-19 shutdown.

Freedom campers in the New Plymouth area have been rounded up and told they must head to a holiday park for the lockdown.

Taranaki Civil Defence is asking Good Samaritan groups to leave caring for the vulnerable during the Covid-19 lockdown to essential services, close family and neighbours

Technology retailers experienced a surge in demand for home office supplies as the Covid-19 shutdown loomed on Wednesday evening.