Taranaki

The Army is planning to downgrade the Waiouru Military Camp with all new recruits instead going to Burnham, near Christchurch, for basic training.

A proposed local bill designed to allow leasees to freehold the land under their homes is racist, a leaseholders' representative says.

Three Taranaki men have been sentenced for causing the death of a Hawera grandmother described as the glue that held her family together.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman after she failed to reappear in court this morning over theft of seismic survey pegs.

Waitara's sewerage system has failed for the second time in a week, with sewage discharged into the sea.

Taranaki iwi are using large crowds drawn to New Plymouth for world cultural festival WOMAD to keep their own traditions alive.

World music festival WOMAD was full of surprises this year, some came from more obscure artists but even the familiar was unexpected, writes Nick Bollinger.

The rain dried up, the clouds parted and the gods of music smiled as the first notes sounded for WOMAD 2016.

New Plymouth now has its own charging station for electric cars, and there are plans for 100 to be rolled out throughout the country.

The organisers of WOMAD have secured a deal guaranteeing the world music festival will return to Taranaki for the next three years.

The three people killed in a fiery crash between a car and a milk tanker in Patea 11 days ago have been named.

A team of scientists have captured what could be world-first footage of a pygmy blue whale feeding her calf. Video