Taranaki ultra runner Jason Reid needs help to win the AMP Dare To Dream competition.

"The school was just put into lockdown as a precaution ..."

Taranaki teens are proving they have what it takes to take on farming life.

"You don't realise how much fight you have until you are faced with something like this."

After losing a son, John Herlihy threw his energy into fundraising for suicide prevention.

The woman died at the scene.

Allan Campbell has been named as the bus driver that was killed in a bus crash yesterday.

The Mitsubishi Fuso is made by same manufacturer as those in other recent incidents.

The person who died was the 69-year-old male bus driver.

The Taranaki Indoor Sheep Dog Trial Club Championship Trials have been held.

Police were alerted shortly after 10pm last night.

Song Cools You Down getting airplay and has been downloaded thousands of times.

Flowers and gifts appear at the site of last week's horrific crash near Waverley.

The kayaker is "really keen for a steak and veggie pie" after landing.

"A small community like this, 80 per cent of the time it is people we know."

Ani Nohinohi is still fighting for her life after losing those closest to her.

Beautiful sunny day ended in shocking deaths on a highway and community in mourning.

Nivek Madams was surrounded by extended family as she died in Waikato Hospital.

The six-year legal battle has come to an end in the Supreme Court.

Taranaki is making a play to be the first region to rid itself of pest predators.

Kimberlee Frederick Knight Vollmer appeared in New Plymouth District Court on the charges.

A Mt Taranaki eruption could see fast-moving, hot ash flows spreading kilometres around.

Around $4500 was raised during the Coastal Taranaki Tornado Fundraiser last Sunday.

Mums of kids with disabilities caused by exposure to epilepsy drug in utero want answers.

David Noel Roigard had his surname suppressed during a trial for historical sex abuse

Get dressed or don't bother going to watch a movie at Hawera Cinema 2.

Court hears evidence of threat to whales and dolphins from iron sand mining.

Labour's immediate ban on new oil exploration has been met with a strong reaction.

A group of Midhirst dairy farmers have rallied together to support their neighbours.

The Forgotten World Highway has landed a big investment from the government.