Budget documents reveal a power cable to the Kupe gas and oil field has failed and is the subject of a $95 million insurance claim.

A freak series of events has seen a Taranaki farmer lose a cow, but save his milking shed from fire.

A Taranaki family have been told to move their 100-year-old driveway after the Department of Conservation found it runs across 160-year-old Maori warrior graves.

Police have named a 19-year-old Taranaki man killed when the car he was driving crashed into trees on Sunday evening.

Anzac Day theft angers war veterans, who see it as an insult to servicemen and their families.

Elizabeth Smither is an acclaimed New Plymouth-based poet, novelist and short story writer. She has recently released The Commonplace Book (AUP, $34.99), a collection of thoughts about writing and the writer's life.

The Easter holiday road toll stands at five after a single-vehicle crash in Taranaki last night.

Travellers could get caught as heavy downfalls settle over the North Island for the next 24 hours.

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out at dawn services across the country.

Police have named the 25-year-old woman who died as a result of a house fire in Paraparaumu yesterday morning.

Facial piercings have been approved as part of school uniform at a major New Plymouth high school.

The flatmate of a 25-year-old mother who died in a house fire in Paraparaumu last night has described how she tried to save her.

New Zealand will host July's Davis Cup tennis tie with the Philippines at Hawera in the Taranaki.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.