Taranaki

Trusts set up more than 50 years ago by two Taranaki farmers have helped thousands of young people further their careers in agriculture and veterinary science. Profits from two dairy farms boost the…

Increasing log traffic and poor stormwater management have been blamed for Port Taranaki flunking its latest environmental monitoring report.

An Anzac project at a rural school in Taranaki has resulted in two soldiers killed in WWI finally being acknowledged on the village war memorial for their sacrifice.

Kevin Ronald Bishell has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for causing the death of teenager Olivia Keightley-Trigg in a head on crash last year.

A Taranaki mother wept as she told a court about witnessing the end of her daughter's life in a head-on crash on State Highway 3 last year.

Dozens of high school students in Taranaki are on the road to employment after completing a driving-skills programme with a stunt driver among its trainers.

The organisers of the Taranaki Gun Show are furious after being banned from advertising in their local paper, and they say displays include guns the nation's forefathers took to war.

A dawn service has been held at Te Kohia Pa on the outskirts of Waitara this morning in recognition of it being the place where the first shots of the New Zealand land wars were fired in 1860.

Most of the time MPs debate about the future but last week they looked back at the first women to enter Parliament and the Crown's invasion of Parihaka

The chairman of the Taranaki Regional Council is under fire for appearing in ads promoting the council's achievements just ahead of the local body elections.

The government has announced funding for a new $300 million wing at Taranaki Base Hospital, to replace earthquake-prone buildings.