Stories by Robin Martin

A New Plymouth mayoral candidate is calling on the council to honour a commitment it gave to help a family caught in a six-year wrangle with a property developer.

Heavyweight bidders have been manoeuvring behind the scenes ahead of this afternoon's charity auction of more than 100 examples of New Zealand's finest photo-journalism.

One New Plymouth mayoral candidate was banned from today's debate for allegedly making threats against the media, while another has dropped out of the contentious race.

A Taranaki family making a last-minute dash to see a dying relative say they are lucky to be alive after their car was caught in a massive slip near Urenui on State Highway 3.

There needs to be independent oversight of multi-national agrichemical company Corteva's promised testing of its controversial Paritutu site in New Plymouth, mayor Neil Holdom says.

A Whanganui moggy has used up one of its nine lives and gotten a new nickname after being rescued from a Phoenix palm in Gonville where it was stuck for more than two weeks.

Not long after completing a mental health qualification a New Plymouth barber realised the perfect place to use his new skills was at his barber's chair.

A five-storey mural of te reo advocate Hana Te Hemara will be unveiled in Ngāmotu / New Plymouth this week as part of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition to…

Commemorations being held this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Pātea freezing works closing will be bittersweet for former workers attending.

The amount of E. Coli in Taranaki rivers will have to drop between 60 and 90 percent to achieve the government's "swimmability" targets, according to a new report.

Taranaki Regional Council is warning people using private bores for drinking water to make sure they are secure from surface runoff contamination and the water is adequately treated.

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.

A former New Plymouth mayor says he can understand why no one has put their hand up to stand for the city's Māori ward.

Police investigating the murder of a man at a remote campground say despite their relief at an arrest, the case is not closed.

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

Local body elections tend to induce a zombie-like stupor - but not so in Whanganui where there's a quiet excitement about actually having a race for the mayoral chains.

Crowds of people have taken a behind-the-scenes look at Whanganui Port, ahead of its planned $50 million revamp.

Neil Holdom is refusing to declare if he will seek a third mayoral term, fuelling speculation he is after a three waters' job.

Rat numbers have tripled on New Plymouth's popular Coastal Walkway this year, posing a threat to kororā/little blue penguin, but experts say the long-term trend continues to be downwards.

Remediation NZ is appealing a Taranaki Regional Council decision not to renew its consents to discharge contaminates to land, water and air.