Taranaki

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.

Emergency alerts combined with a lack of information about the wellbeing of staff caused alarm during ammonia spill at a meat processing plant.

An analysis of the $50 million repair and upgrade of the earthquake-prone Yarrow Stadium in New Plymouth reveals it has a high degree of risk.

Taranaki sports organisations are crying foul over being asked to back funding applications for the $50 million upgrade to Yarrow Stadium that they did not support in the first place.

Independent experts have recommended a multi-sports hub focused on community sport be established at New Plymouth Racecourse.

A Taranaki bus company is being credited with helping to kick-start a nascent cruise ship market in New Plymouth.

Rahotu is a 300-strong close-knit community on Taranaki's Surf Highway. Among its residents are a leatherworker who crafts props for blockbuster movies and a mechanic who, when Country Life visited…

The government is being taken to task for failing to act on a 2017 report that found more than 100 'orphan oil and gas wells' around the country had not been properly decommissioned.