Taranaki

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.

In the early 20th Century more than half the Swiss living in New Zealand lived in Taranaki; now a new generation is celebrating its Swiss heritage by taking up the traditional alpine instrument. Audio

The Taranaki Mountain Airs basketball team couldn't have scripted a better home send-off for retiring veteran Aaron Bailey-Nowell aka 'Aunty'.

The victim of an alleged coastal Taranaki murder was expecting the arrival of his third son in just weeks.

Police say the man had serious injuries and was taken to New Plymouth's Taranaki Base Hospital by associates.

The world's first art gallery in a campervan is the star turn of the Coastal Arts Trail which is being launched in Taranaki today.

It may seem like a friendly outing for an animal lover, but taking a domestic moggie on a walk about in one of our national parks could have catastrophic consequences.

Winter conditions and the BA.5 variant are driving infections, says one health professional, with modelling showing case numbers could remain high throughout August.

Crashes in Waikato and New Plymouth have left one person dead, blocked roads, and left a car on its roof beside a busy highway.