Stories by Robin Martin

The government is being taken to task for failing to act on a 2017 report that found more than 100 'orphan oil and gas wells' around the country had not been properly decommissioned.

As sales of ebikes continue to accelerate, pensioners now account for more than 40 percent of e-bike crashes resulting in claims to ACC.

New Plymouth real estate agents say they do not expect properties in a KiwiBuild development in the city to sell quickly.

Tonnes of ancient volcanic rock are being transformed into works of fine art on New Plymouth's coastal walkway.

Calls are growing for Whanganui to review its open slather approach to freedom camping. Campgrounds say they are missing out on revenue but the council has no plans to ban them.

The Mayor of Whanganui says he accepts responsibility for delays in the construction of the Upokongaro Cycle Bridge on State Highway 4 - a crucial link in the Mountain to Sea and National cycleways.

A New Plymouth business owed hundreds of thousands of dollars by a failed oil and gas company says the government should force the parent company to sell its remaining NZ assets.

Ask someone what the most common surname in New Zealand is and invariably the answer is Smith.

Questions are being raised about a proposed development near Ngāmotu Beach in New Plymouth and it's vicinity to an operating oil well.

Demonstrators have gathered at prominent New Plymouth landmark Moungaroa, or Blagdon Hill, to protest its sale by telecommunications company Chorus.

Whakatāne businesses are feeling the fallout caused by the Whakaari/White Island tragedy that has officially claimed the lives of 15 people.

Whakatāne charter fishermen anxiously waiting for eight bodies to be recovered from Whakaari/White Island have been dissuaded from taking matters into their own hands.

The announcement that $9.6 million Provincial Growth Fund monies will be spent sealing metal road on State Highway 43 in eastern Taranaki is being met with a degree of scepticism.

The former detective sergeant who arrested Jules Mikus for the murder of Napier schoolgirl Teresa Cormack says he "despises" the killer and won't mourn his passing.

More than 100 onshore oil and gas wells that have been abandoned and not shut down properly over the past 150 years, a review has found.

Tamarind Taranaki, which owns the Tui Field, went into voluntary receivership earlier this month, meaning the government could be responsible for plugging and abandoning its wells.

Businesses on the central North Island's Forgotten World Highway say they are desperate for the road to reopen ahead of the busy tourism season.

Increasing log traffic and poor stormwater management have been blamed for Port Taranaki flunking its latest environmental monitoring report.

An Anzac project at a rural school in Taranaki has resulted in two soldiers killed in WWI finally being acknowledged on the village war memorial for their sacrifice.

Students on the audio engineering degree course that moulded Joel Little - producer of Lorde's Grammy award-winning hit 'Royals' - are fuming it has been closed without them even being told.

Kevin Ronald Bishell has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for causing the death of teenager Olivia Keightley-Trigg in a head on crash last year.

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.

A man who coached the All Blacks in the art of kapa haka says the "Flying V" by the English rugby team wasn't disrespectful or offensive.

Tears have been shed, hymns sung and hopes for the future expressed at the second day of Te Pūtake o te Riri - the New Zealand Wars commemorations in Taranaki.