A kiwi hit by a car in the Waitotara Valley, Taranaki, last week is getting a health check-up from Massey University vets.

Tauranga Art Gallery has come under fire for displaying two photos that feature coarsely worded messages scrawled in ballpoint beside images of a 1974 gay liberation dance.

Maori elders blessed the scene of a fatal car crash in South Wairarapa this morning where the body of the 17-year-old crash victim lay covered on the road.

Police are urging motorists to drive to the conditions after three people died on New Zealand's roads within 11 hours in separate crashes.

A flooring company which sent texts to a competitor trying to fix prices for sanding and polishing services has been handed a formal warning by the Commerce Commission.

Catherine Smith pedals Taranaki's seafront, stopping along the way.

A Taranaki beach hermit's unlawful driftwood home is being dismantled after 16 years of occupation.

The unusual death of a 10-month-old boy who was run over by a trailer has prompted a coroner to renew calls for vigilance around driveways.

As families gather for Christmas, Kerry Lock walks around his house alone after the death of his partner Rosemaree Kurth, gunned down by the boy he called his grandson,

Child Youth and Family has admitted mistakes in its handling of 13-year-old murderer Jordan Nelson following criticism from the teen's step-grandfather.

A 13-year-old murderer jailed for 18 years for murdering his caregiver will need to be treated humanely, a legal expert and youth advocate says.

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.

A 13-year-old has pleaded guilty to murdering his caregiver who died almost instantly after being shot at her rural Taranaki house in April.

Kathy Gulliver, owner, Mud Bay Cafe, Urenui, Taranaki.

A fly-walk venture enables Deborah Telford to get close to our native bird.