Robin Martin

Local government leaders want councillors to be excused from turning up in person to meetings in recognition of the likely disruption of the Covid 19 virus.

Travellers passing through the new $29 million airport terminal in New Plymouth next week will find themselves immersed in the culture of the local hapū Puketapu.

WOMAD festival organisers insist that - beyond taking extra care with their personal hygiene - healthy festival-goers need only come prepared to have a good time.

A Taranaki farmer says if the government wants to plug an 'orphaned' oil well on his property it can pay for the work itself or stay off his land.

A flight school snapped up on TradeMe five years ago has taken off for the commercial arm of the Whanganui District Council.

The city is facing an infrastructure bill of hundreds of millions after years of successive councils failed to invest, the mayor says.

An ammonia leak at a South Taranaki meat processing plant - which has killed more than 1000 fish and eels - is being described as a significant environmental incident.

Emergency alerts combined with a lack of information about the wellbeing of staff caused alarm during ammonia spill at a meat processing plant.

An analysis of the $50 million repair and upgrade of the earthquake-prone Yarrow Stadium in New Plymouth reveals it has a high degree of risk.

Taranaki sports organisations are crying foul over being asked to back funding applications for the $50 million upgrade to Yarrow Stadium that they did not support in the first place.

A prominent Taranaki businessman's fall from grace is complete after he was jailed for two years and 10 months for his part in a methamphetamine supply ring.

A groundbreaking school that puts a green ethos at the centre of its learning is celebrating its opening in Taranaki today.

A Taranaki bus company is being credited with helping to kick-start a nascent cruise ship market in New Plymouth.

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.