Robin Martin

A Te Kahui o Taranaki project is not only helping to put food on the table during a cost of living crisis, it's also putting iwi members back in touch with traditional gardening practices.

Tātai… Audio

A New Plymouth couple - whose home is teetering on the edge of a massive slip on council-owned land - is seeking legal advice after councillors voted not to pay to help fix the problem.

David and… Audio

Among the hundreds of contractors and residents on Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up duties in the Esk Valley is small team of Fijian firefighters.

Part of a deployment that also includes 26 Fijian Defence… Audio

Faced with never-ending piles of silt and slash, their homes badly damaged and families traumatised, some property owners in the Esk Valley are wondering if they will ever return.

As the arduous… Audio

Hawke's Bay residents are struggling with the mental impact of relentless rains and flooding.

It's rained on all but three days since Cyclone Gabrielle cut a swathe through the region and heavy rain… Audio

Hawke's Bay hospitality businesses are pinning their hopes on the reopening of State Highway 5 to return trade to some semblance of normality after Cyclone Gabrielle.

About 80 percent of tourism… Audio

Mystery surrounds the discovery of weka in Taranaki, where the protected native bird has been extinct since the 1930s.

Adding to the intrigue, the Department of Conservation is worried the voracious… Audio

St Mary's Bay residents are blaming the council for massive slips that have left some homes hanging precariously over the northern motorway approach to the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

They say blocked… Audio

New Plymouth surfing veteran Pid Pidwell is one of the first New Zealanders to fit his longboard with a Boost surf fin. Audio

Kāinga Ora has admitted it made mistakes and could've acted faster to solve problems with tenants described as 'the neighbours from hell'.

Up to a dozen people lived permanently at the Babich Hills… Audio

It's been the subject of lengthy legal battles, but progress is being made on the 280 million dollar Mt Messenger bypass project in North Taranaki. Motorists are now able to see a 1.1km cableway being… Audio

Private property owners are leaving their homes and moving into campervans to get away from unruly Kāinga Ora neighbours.

A Christchurch woman says she sold up to preserve her mental health, while a… Audio

Kainga Ora has yet to cancel any tenancies or evict a single tenant since it was instructed to more vigorously employ the law against unruly renters.

But 113 households have moved voluntarily, about… Audio

An Auckland homeowner who says Kāinga Ora advised her to sell up and move to get away from its unruly tenants in her neighbourhood, has taken a complaint to the Ombudsman.

After enduring five years… Audio

For the first time in its 35 year history the Taranaki Garden Festival is offering a tour specifically designed for the blind and those with low vision.

It has teamed up with staff from the Puke… Audio

Kāinga Ora is under fire again over how it manages disruptive tenants.

A Christchurch woman says the housing agency broke a promise to only house tenants with unblemished records in her… Audio

The nationwide shortage of GPs is hitting hard in New Plymouth with not a single practice in the city taking on new patients.

The College of General Practitioners says the situation is critical in… Audio