Stories by Craig Ashworth

A Maōri researcher says a new focus on Covid-19 boosters is needed as vaccination rates stagnate.

A sliver of land just a metre wide has sparked a call for recognition of historic land confiscation when council land is sold in New Plymouth.

A late push for Taranaki Regional Council to have two Māori seats at this year's elections has failed.

Childhood immunisation rates in Taranaki have suffered as resources poured into fighting Covid-19.

A Māori health provider will offer Taranaki's first drive-through Covid-19 vaccinations in the region's towns this weekend.

Taranaki Regional Council is to investigate the state of kaimoana stocks after multiple hapū banned shellfish gathering.

A baby is in intensive care with Covid-19 at New Plymouth Base Hospital. The baby is under one year old and was admitted with Covid-19 related symptoms, and moved to ICU as a precautionary measure.

The hapū that sparked the shellfish rāhui along much of the Taranaki coast want a legal ban on gathering kaimoana for two years or more.

The tribal ban on collecting kaimoana is expanding along the Taranaki coast as more hapū try to protect paua and other shellfish stocks.

A multimillion-dollar wildlife centre and kiwi viewing house in Inglewood is a step closer, with the community board recommending New Plymouth District Council buy land for it.

The focus of Covid-19 testing in Taranaki has shifted north as locations of interest multiply.

In a last-ditch effort to boost Māori representation two people have appealed the council's decision to stick with 11 councillors, which meant just one Māori constituency for next year's election.

A quarter of Eltham's population has been tested for Covid-19 since a case of the virus in the town was announced on Saturday evening.

A Taranaki iwi leader is urging whānau to get tested and vaccinated in light of Covid-19 returning to the region.

Several close contacts of the family with Covid-19 in Stratford are symptomatic and are being tested.

A military-style crisis response will be set up with millions of dollars of new funding for the Māori Covid-19 vaccination effort around Whanganui.

Māori health providers are close to a Taranaki-wide deal for direct funding from the health ministry, side-stepping the district health board.

Trans-Tasman Resources has lost its Supreme Court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of South Taranaki.

Taranaki Regional councillors have rejected calls from Māori for two seats at next year's local body elections.

Surveillance cameras have been set up to catch fossickers hunting for war relics at a historic Taranaki pā.

Iwi health providers in Taranaki say vaccination clinics solely for Māori are essential to close the gap with non-Māori vaccination rates.

Ten million dollars of funding for conservation projects in Taranaki is also fostering hapū and whānau, say project leaders.

Taranaki Māori politicians including Adrian Rurawhe and Howie Tamati want it to be easier for voters to join the Māori electoral roll.

Hapū and iwi have been promised more influence in naming new roads in New Plymouth.

Ngāti Ruanui is awaiting the fate of a seabed mining bid off the south Taranaki coast with a healthy nervousness, says iwi leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.