Stories by Robin Martin

Questions are being asked about the New Plymouth mayor's involvement in a meeting about the sale of reserve land, including the transfer of $2.25 million to a private golf club.

A curious game of aerial ping-pong is playing out in the Pureora Forest Park in the central North Island as part of a project to re-establish kokāko hundreds of kilometres away in Taranaki.

New Plymouth District Council continues to spend millions of dollars on consultants despite its mayor questioning the practice during his 2016 election campaign.

A Whanganui couple who lost a massive chunk of their section to a landslide in 2015 have been left shattered by their battle with EQC over repair costs. Video

A former police officer has pleaded guilty to dozens of charges in relation to the theft of about $640,000 from a hapū organisation in Taranaki.

New Plymouth swimmers are begging their council not to pave over an Olympic-sized outdoor pool as part of a $33 million revamp of the city's aquatic complex.

The first hihi or stitchbird breeding season in Taranaki for 130 years has beaten expectations.

The government is telling the New Zealand oil industry that the world is changing and it is time it faced the facts.

The Taranaki community feels let down by the government's announcement that it will not grant new deep-sea oil and gas exploration permits, a business leader says.

After getting slammed by a tornado yesterday, a crew of farmers, tradesmen, factory workers and even bankers turned up to help with the clean up.

A Taranaki farmer and his mate were left "hanging on for dear life" as a tornado passed over the milking shed they were working in at Rahotū this morning. Video

The only way for Facebook users to be certain their data is not being misused is to delete their existing accounts, says the Privacy Commissioner.

The regional development minister says iwi support was crucial to his commitment of $13.3 million towards the creation of a 'maunga to moana' trek on Mt Taranaki.

A $13.3 million investment in a trek traversing Egmont National Park is the highlight of a $20m provincial growth fund for Taranaki.

Taranaki iwi Ngāti Maru have reached an agreement in principle with the Crown for a Treaty settlement with a financial redress of $30 million.

A Whanganui council is proposing to buy and remove dozens of homes in the most flood-prone areas of Whanganui.

New Plymouth residents are being asked to fork out between $28 million and $147m to improve the resilience of the city's water infrastructure.

The PM's comments about the future of oil and gas exploration is causing anxiety in Taranaki - the only region in New Zealand where hydrocarbons are commercially exploited.

Visitors to this weekend's Womad festival in Taranaki will have the opportunity to brush up on their te reo and understanding of Tikanga Māori.

First-home buyers are being blamed for a shortage of rental properties in Whanganui that has left some of the city's most vulnerable residents scrambling to put a roof over their heads.

Pukeiti rainforest park in Taranaki is set to get a $5.9 million boost, which includes creating a mountain bike trail linking the park to the Tasman Sea.

There were emotional scenes at a packed New Plymouth council meeting last night when the public got to have its say on a controversial plan to carve up the city's only public golf course.

From poultry to haircuts, the scale of the economic impact of New Plymouth's water crisis is beginning to hit home.

Many Waitara residents are still without power - and now have no running water - as Taranaki continues to struggle with the aftermath of Cyclone Gita.

Water tankers have been deployed in New Plymouth after cyclone Gita knocked out a water pipe which supplies 25 percent of the district's population.