Taranaki inflicted yet more doubt and uncertainty on Auckland with a ITM Cup win at New Plymouth today.

The operator of the Tui offshore Taranaki oil and gas field says probable reserves are between nine and 11 million barrels of oil short of the 50.5 million barrels previously thought.

A man who tried to revive a toddler drowned in a rubbish bin full of rainwater says he'll "live with it for the rest of my life". The toddler drowned while his mother was in the toilet.

Police say 'a great deal' of work had gone into ensuring the safety of a woman taken hostage by a her former partner, who had just finished serving time for trying to cut her throat.

The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.

A man police shot dead after he took a woman hostage at gunpoint at a Taranaki Hotel overnight was released from jail last week. Police this afternoon named him as Anthony Ratahi, 46, from Stratford.

A new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.

Chenye Hughes was asleep in her conservatory when a tornado tore through her New Plymouth...

Firefighters have been working flat out in New Plymouth today assessing the damage after two tornadoes tore through the city early this morning.

Police say an elderly woman who sneaked out of a New Plymouth rest home, checked herself into a motel for the night.