A New Plymouth retail store sacked shop assistant Ericia Durning after she took home a car magazine without permission last year.

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.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has warned "separatism is coming to a council near you" .

A rest home company and an inexperienced graduate nurse have been faulted over the death of an elderly woman from dehydration and other disorders.

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.

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.

The two mountaineers who died on Mt Taranaki had little chance of surviving for two nights and a day in their shallow hole in the hard snow and freezing wind, says a leading local guide.

The Taranaki Outdoor Pursuits Centre has escaped a fine for the tragedy on Paritutu Rock last year, but will still pay out $72,000 in reparations to families of victims and survivors.

Amble for hours in any direction, writes Jane Jeffries.

Police are unable to say whether a body discovered in New Plymouth is that of missing teenager Nikolao Meafua.