Taranaki

A five-storey mural of te reo advocate Hana Te Hemara will be unveiled in Ngāmotu / New Plymouth this week as part of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition to…

A month-long occupation of the Mt Messenger bypass site on State Highway 3 in Taranaki has come to an end this afternoon, as police removed protesters and made two arrests.

The call has gone out for whānau to come home and celebrate the final Treaty of Waitangi iwi settlement in Taranaki.

Ongoing contamination by a faecal bug has left just a fifth of Taranaki rivers clean enough to swim in, according to a new assessment for Taranaki Regional Council.

Commemorations being held this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Pātea freezing works closing will be bittersweet for former workers attending.

A 71-year-old has been jailed for at least his 100th term of imprisonment after he was caught driving drunk two days in a row and then again three months later.

The amount of E. Coli in Taranaki rivers will have to drop between 60 and 90 percent to achieve the government's "swimmability" targets, according to a new report.

Taranaki Regional Council is warning people using private bores for drinking water to make sure they are secure from surface runoff contamination and the water is adequately treated.

Truck and tractor drivers taking short cuts are being blamed for causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to Taranaki landmarks.

New Plymouth district councillors will consider supporting a two-year ban on collecting kaimoana along the coast to the south of the city.

New Plymouth's fund to maintain Māori burial grounds is underspent for a second year and council officers say a multi-pronged approach is needed to fulfil its potential.

Taranaki tyre shops are doing a roaring trade replacing bent and buckled wheel rims and tyres blown out on the region's pothole-riddle roads - but it's business they'd rather not have.

New Zealand Cricket may abandon New Plymouth's Pukekura Park - one of the country's best-loved provincial grounds.

The mayor of New Plymouth says Waka Kotahi has siphoned off half a billion dollars from Taranaki over the past decade while the region's state highways are falling apart.

Waka Kotahi representatives were a no-show at a hui to try and resolve an occupation at its Mt Messenger Bypass site on State Highway 3 in North Taranaki today.

The diggers will allow contractors to work on the project's cableway, which will eventually take machinery and personnel into the heart of the project.

Protesters gathered today at Mt Messenger in northern Taranaki to try to stop the construction of a bypass.

The district's 800km ageing drinking water pipes is experiencing strain due to high use.

Move Logistics intends providing a monthly shipping service between regional New Zealand ports and Australia.

Police say the 23-year-old man who was killed in New Plymouth this week was a young father.