Taranaki

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.

The New Plymouth District Council has been taken to task for its handling of complaints about its water infrastructure.

Ruapehu district businesses and health services are bracing for the long-term closure of the main highway between Whanganui and Raetihi.

State Highway 3 in South Taranaki is open again after closing due to a serious crash this morning.

"Functionally" extinct in Egmont National Park 20 years ago - the population of whio on Mt Taranaki has grown to such an extent that they are taking up residence outside the park.