Robin Martin

Despite having no active cases of Covid-19 in the community Whanganui woke to find itself in the red zone today.

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

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

The District Health Board says police are now being warned in advance of vaccination events in an effort to keep staff safe, while iwi health providers have beefed up mobile vaccination teams to help…

A multi-million dollar marae makeover is breathing new life into one of Taranaki's most celebrated pa sites. Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin went along to take a look.

Groups of rangatahi are going door-to-door in towns and suburbs with high Māori populations in Taranaki in an effort to boost flagging vaccination rates.

It's feared a deal to get the Mt Messenger bypass built in North Taranaki could see more native forests bulldozed for new roads.

There has been a significant decline in the public's perception of recreational water quality in Taranaki.

New Plymouth councillors will consider a report which recommends scrapping a $6.5 million plan to build a shared trail on the Kaitake Ranges.

A group of Taranaki school children enjoying a crash course in kiwi tracking in Te Papakura o Taranaki have been let in on a secret... a chick is on the way.

The Taranaki District Health Board has a Covid 'surge' plan in place that would enable it to cater for nine ventilated ICU patients and up to 60 in-patients.

The mayor of New Plymouth has found himself at odds with the Taranaki Public Health Unit over modelling of the potential impact of a delta outbreak in the province.

One of the last stretches of unsealed state highway in the country is now a step closer to being smothered in tarmac.

Lockdown and the power of poetry are being credited for the Whanganui pound re-homing a record number of dogs this year.

A Taranaki shipping agent is fuming that an injured seafarer has been unable to get medical treatment in New Plymouth over Covid-19 fears and instead arrangements are being made to fly him back to…

With events being struck from the calendar all around them, the Taranaki Garden Festival has defied the odds to get to the start line today.

After months of unsuccessfully trying to get a space in MIQ, four Kiwis are on a 40ft yacht taking a 2200 nautical mile trip from Tahiti to Opua.

A deal has been done to set up the first managed isolation and quarantine service in Taranaki.

Organisers of the Womad festival in Taranaki say the event next March will be just as fantastic as any other year.

The Covid-19 vaccination programme in Taranaki may need to rollover into next year to get Māori in the region up beyond a 90 percent vaccination rate.

Earlier this week, only 24 percent of Taranaki Māori were fully vaccinated while just under 40 percent of the general population had both jabs - two of the lowest rates in the country.

Taranaki has rolled out "aunties power" as it ramps up efforts to boost the Māori vaccination rate in the province.

Official emails reveal the Taranaki District Health Board worried crew members could die and a humanitarian crisis unfold on deep-sea fishing vessels with Covid-19 on board which had contact with the…

There's been a bittersweet reaction to a King Country man and his three children walking out of the bush alive with many asking how could the situation have arisen.

Trans-Tasman Resources has lost its Supreme Court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of ironsands off the coast of South Taranaki.