Taranaki

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.

A man has been sentenced to three months in prison for spitting at police officers.

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.

Police have seized about $90,000 worth of property from a New Plymouth man, following an operation targeting the sale and supply of class A drugs in Taranaki.

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

Already reeling before the announcement of a nationwide lockdown, some hospitality businesses are now worried about their long-term viability.

A decade of pest control is paying dividends in a remote 1000 hectare block of bush at Purangi in East Taranaki.

The second day of Womad is always a marathon: twelve hours of music. This year it was a mixture of the good, the bad and the astonishing.

Travellers passing through the new $29 million airport terminal in New Plymouth next week will find themselves immersed in the culture of the local hapū Puketapu.

A new project aimed at boosting Taranaki's food and fibre industry has been launched today by Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor.

An oil and gas company in receivership wants to leave equipment on the Taranaki sea floor. Local iwi fundamentally oppose the plans.

A Taranaki farmer says if the government wants to plug an 'orphaned' oil well on his property it can pay for the work itself or stay off his land.

Each year 17 Taranaki rugby clubs receive cheques from the Taranaki Community Rugby Trust thanks to a successful dairy farming operation. The Trust runs two dairy farms and a run off and all the…

A new Len Lye sculpture - Sky Snakes - is making its world premiere at celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery today.

The city is facing an infrastructure bill of hundreds of millions after years of successive councils failed to invest, the mayor says.

An ammonia leak at a South Taranaki meat processing plant - which has killed more than 1000 fish and eels - is being described as a significant environmental incident.