Robin Martin

An iwi healthcare provider in Taranaki says difficulty getting supplies is hampering support of people isolating with Omicron.

Taranaki has been averaging more than 600 new Covid-19 cases a day and… Audio

Health authorities are ramping up efforts to boost the country's faltering childhood immunisation programme.

Rates have been on the decline since 2017 and have taken a further hit during the… Audio

A controversial North Taranaki composting and worm farming business has flunked its latest environmental monitoring report.

Previously in trouble for stockpiling 20,000 tonnes of oil and gas waste at… Audio

A Taranaki school says it can't open some of its windows as the noise of traffic speeding along the highway outside is thundering through classrooms.

Egmont Village School sits on State Highway 3… Video, Audio

An energy sector lobby group says applying the 'Crown Minerals (Amendment) Act' retrospectively to deals done years ago is 'bad public policy'. The Act passed in December is casting a shadow over… Audio

While attention is focused on the protest at Parliament, vaccinators have been busy delivering booster shots and inoculating under 12 year olds.

In Taranaki, 47,981 people have now had a booster - 65… Audio

A three-million-dollar clean-up operation to remove highly toxic dioxin from the New Plymouth wastewater treatment plant has sparked calls for an investigation into where else the compound may be… Audio

The national future energy centre Ara Ake burned through two thirds of its annual revenue, around $1.7 million dollars, in salaries, directors fees and consultants in its first year.

Set up in… Audio

A new fresh water testing methodology in Taranaki has revealed what ecologists say they have long known - the region's rivers and streams become contaminated with bacteria after rain. The regional… Audio

Development of the multi-million dollar Taranaki Crossing in Te Papakura o Taranaki - Egmont National Park - has entered into a new phase this summer.

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The government is being called on to step in to force a multi-national agri-chemical business to clean up its New Plymouth production site which the local mayor has described as a "ticking time bomb".

A Taranaki dentist has warned that wait times for children requiring dental treatment under general anaesthetic are tantamount to child abuse.

Dr Mary Anne Costelloe says about 100 children in the… Audio

The great traffic light switch on has happened, with the nation now lit up in orange and red.

Despite having no active cases of Covid in the community Whanganui has found itself in the red zone due… Audio

Whanganui is red under the new Traffic Light System.

This comes as a local iwi leader has urged holidaymakers to reconsider plans to visit the region this summer, to protect Te Awa Tupua communities… Audio

The mayor of Whanganui is supporting an iwi leader's call for holidaymakers to steer clear of the region this summer.

Hamish McDouall says with the low Māori vaccination rates in region, he can… Audio

The boss of an iwi healthcare provider in Taranaki is worried a shortage of oximeters will hamper its ability to help whanau isolating at home with Covid-19.

It's expected most people with mild to… Audio

Vaccination events in Taranaki are being shifted indoors or abandoned as vaccinators come under physical and verbal attack from people opposed to the jab.

The District Health Board says police are… Audio