Taranaki

A stoush between a Taranaki farmer and the Department of Conservation is threatening public access to one of the region's top walks. Video, Audio

The only things separating Keith Newman's Haumoana home from the encroaching sea are a road and a self-made protective wall. Video

A Taranaki beach settlement is in clean-up mode again after storm surges washed rotting animal carcasses onto the beach and tossed huge logs through fences.

Labour leader Andrew Little, who was raised in Marfell, is blaming the government for the looting of derelict state housing in the New Plymouth suburb.

Taranaki Regional Council spent $85,000 unsuccessfully contesting RNZ's coverage of its oil industry waste farms - known as landfarms.

Residents of a New Plymouth suburb filled with dozens of derelict Housing New Zealand properties say they feel increasingly unsafe in their own homes.

A former Taranaki teacher jailed for four-and-a-half years on child pornography charges likened his offending to stamp collecting.

A man has died following a house fire at Parihaka in South Taranaki, although his death was not directly related to it.

New Plymouth's Len Lye Centre is in the running to be World Building of the Year.

New Plymouth's only Māori councillor has taken a moral stand against a bill which would return some land in Waitara to Te Ātiawa and allow leaseholders to freehold their properties.