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.

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.

Adam Morehu was fatally shot by police early this morning after allegedly telling the officers he was going to kill them and then firing a shot at them.

Residents of a tiny rural community will gather this Tuesday to ponder its status as one of the most intensively drilled places in the country.

The brother of an instructor who died after being swept off Taranaki's Paritutu Rock into the sea, says he is not angry with the company his brother worked for.

A New Plymouth man is dead and another had to be cut out from a car after losing control while drag racing on a rural Taranaki road last night.