Robin Martin

Questions are being asked about whether 30 hectares of native forest really needs to be felled to make way for a long-awaited bypass in northern Taranaki.

Details of another route for the State… Audio

A lifelong friend of a man shot and killed by police in Taranaki two years ago says he was shocked to hear of another fatal shooting.

22-year-old Kaoss Price was shot on Saturday night after he… Audio

South Taranaki appears well placed to bounce back from Covid-19 after dodging the worst of the disruption caused by the virus. Taranaki reported 288 new Covid-19 cases on 13 April, 76 of those in… Audio

When is a ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration, really a ban?

That's the question environmentalists are asking after discovering Greymouth Petroleum has been given permission to conduct a… Audio

A Taranaki school's decision to canvas opinion on whether it should change the names of its classroom blocks has stirred up a range of emotions.

New Plymouth Girls' High School wants to know whether… Video, Audio

The Omicron outbreak is causing visitor spending to tank in Taranaki after it defied predictions and held its own during the first two years of the pandemic.

The sector wants the government to help… Audio

An iwi healthcare provider in Taranaki says difficulty getting supplies is hampering support of people isolating with Omicron.

Taranaki has been averaging more than 600 new Covid-19 cases a day and… Audio

Health authorities are ramping up efforts to boost the country's faltering childhood immunisation programme.

Rates have been on the decline since 2017 and have taken a further hit during the… Audio

A controversial North Taranaki composting and worm farming business has flunked its latest environmental monitoring report.

Previously in trouble for stockpiling 20,000 tonnes of oil and gas waste at… Audio

A Taranaki school says it can't open some of its windows as the noise of traffic speeding along the highway outside is thundering through classrooms.

Egmont Village School sits on State Highway 3… Video, Audio

An energy sector lobby group says applying the 'Crown Minerals (Amendment) Act' retrospectively to deals done years ago is 'bad public policy'. The Act passed in December is casting a shadow over… Audio

While attention is focused on the protest at Parliament, vaccinators have been busy delivering booster shots and inoculating under 12 year olds.

In Taranaki, 47,981 people have now had a booster - 65… Audio

A three-million-dollar clean-up operation to remove highly toxic dioxin from the New Plymouth wastewater treatment plant has sparked calls for an investigation into where else the compound may be… Audio

The national future energy centre Ara Ake burned through two thirds of its annual revenue, around $1.7 million dollars, in salaries, directors fees and consultants in its first year.

Set up in… Audio

A new fresh water testing methodology in Taranaki has revealed what ecologists say they have long known - the region's rivers and streams become contaminated with bacteria after rain. The regional… Audio

Development of the multi-million dollar Taranaki Crossing in Te Papakura o Taranaki - Egmont National Park - has entered into a new phase this summer.

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The government is being called on to step in to force a multi-national agri-chemical business to clean up its New Plymouth production site which the local mayor has described as a "ticking time bomb".

A Taranaki dentist has warned that wait times for children requiring dental treatment under general anaesthetic are tantamount to child abuse.

Dr Mary Anne Costelloe says about 100 children in the… Audio