Robin Martin

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.

A former New Plymouth mayor has criticised the council for lack of transparency about why its chief executive is absent from his post.

The decision to introduce a targeted rate to help repair roads damaged by logging trucks is winning few friends in Taranaki.

The chief executive of the New Plymouth District Council is on leave following a secret emergency meeting held last week.

The hunt is on for clues to solve the mystery of how several shells and a live powelliphanta marchanti snail ended up in a Manawatū reserve.

Some employers are throwing open days to attract staff, while others are offering incentives and going the extra mile to keep the kaimahi they've already got.

A new traffic-light controlled pedestrian crossing in Taranaki is being described as a monument to a failed funding model.

A night in a luxury hotel is being used to entice staff at the Taranaki District Health Board to get a flu vaccination as it declares itself a 'Fortress' against winter ailments.

Some rangatahi who vape are consuming as much nicotine as someone smoking a pack-and-a-half-a-day of cigarettes a day, a youth health education organisation says.

A New Plymouth school is appealing to the community for help with what it says is a growing vaping problem.