Stories by Robin Martin

Council officers are sounding the warning bell about rates rises of more than 20 percent.

Boil-up, hangi and fry bread sit alongside more traditional fast food offerings.

The government's decision to delay pricing agricultural emissions and scrap the sector-led He Waka Eke Noa - Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership - initiative has been welcomed by Taranaki…

"We've been planting, everything is fenced, so I'm not sure where to head to from here," a dairy farmer says.

There were gasps and tears from friends and family of Field - many of them wearing hoodies with 'Justice for Emma' - as the verdict was read out.

The Taranaki allegedly stole a car left unlocked, and upon discovering the baby, pulled over and left the child on a grass verge.

A jury has heard two vastly different accounts of the night a young woman's life ended in a house fire.

A fatal fire started on a mattress that was exposed to a naked flame, a specialist forensic fire investigator has told a jury.

Leigh Matthew Beer is on trial for the murder of his partner. But his defence counsel is pointing the finger at a Mongrel Mob member.

A player was floored by a punch as opposing players were shaking hands after a match.

The friends say they asked if anyone was inside the burning building, but were told to "piss off".

A witness has recalled hearing a man screaming a woman's name at the scene of a fatal fire - but never hearing a woman scream back.

Leaked documents show testing for contamination at the New Plymouth site may need to go further.

More than 30 people have been trespassed from a pedestrianised space in New Plymouth's CBD that has become notorious for trouble.

Leigh Beer is on trial charged with arson and murder following the death of 21-year-old Emma Field in 2022.

Neil Holdom has made 34 recommendations ahead of deliberations on the council's long-term plan next week.

Two week's after Stratford's much-loved Glockenspiel fell silent, Romeo and Juliet are once again emerging on the clock tower balcony.

In the depths were a cash register and a skate park bin: "I wouldn't be surprised to see someone had chucked a partridge and a pear tree in there too."

The baby was found uninjured on a grass verge near a street corner.

The overall rates rise for year two of the plan was 13.23 percent and was 10.19 percent in the third year.

The offshore wind sector has told government ministers it can't co-exist with seabed mining off Patea, but a mining firm says that's not true.

The war for supremacy over our cousins from across the ditch has a new battleground - tap water.

Offshore wind companies have told the government the industry is not compatible with seabed mining in the Taranaki Bight - but the mining industry disagrees.

It's built to last a century, survive a one-in-250-year landslide and may become a tourist destination in and of itself.

The owner of a farm - parts of which a court has ruled can be acquired for the bypass - says he has no regrets about fighting the project.