Stephen and Maureen Doy got a shock when they checked out their favourite whitebait possie in readiness for the opening of the season later this month.

A man is dead after he was thrown from an inflatable boat on the Waitara River mouth in Taranaki earlier today.

A Stratford man who admitted to killing his mother will spend at least 16 years in jail.

A bitter saga that has lasted more than four decades, cost about $20 million and divided a city will reach some kind of climax in New Plymouth over the weekend.

A real estate agent rented a house to a colleague at a discounted rate and paid the difference so he could use its garage for storage - without the owners' knowledge.

A man is dead after crashing a car through a bridge barrier and plummeting onto a car park.

A young New Plymouth man was left “speechless” after discovering a section of Pohutakawa tree had fallen on onto his new car.

A police response to an aggravated burglary in which a man died after he was Tasered, shot and beaten has been labelled "unplanned and uncoordinated".

Firefighters are working to control a blaze at a hay shed in New Plymouth this morning.

One person is dead after a car collided with an Intercity bus at Awakino in Taranaki today.

A New Plymouth bed and breakfast owner has been ordered to stop filming his neighbour and pay $7000 compensation by the Human Rights Tribunal.

Named for Plymouth in England, where many of the early colonial settlers came from. Taranaki is Maori for shining mountain.

A cleaner who reportedly told her boss she would send someone to him and the visit "wouldn't be nice" if he did not pay her was wrongly fired, the ERA has found.

An elderly couple who died after they were hit by a car while crossing a Taranaki highway yesterday have been named by police.

One man has been arrested following a knife point carjacking in New Plymouth.

A man who hit a jogger with his car, took her body and dumped it in a reserve 10km down the road, will spend at least the next 13 years behind bars.