Remote school sent children home because roads were expected to be flooded.

A school is being evacuated and flooding is hitting lots of areas in in the North Island.

Virtually no region in the North Island will escape the torrential rains.

Regional GDP growth is up across 12 out of New Zealand's 15 regions.

Shearers raise funds for cause close to their hearts - Made with funding from NZ On Air

Talks have begun on the "most severe" Treaty grievance in the country - Mt Taranaki.

Ngati Ruanui weighed in on the seabed mining debate - as the hearing into Trans Tasman Resources' application shifted to New Pymouth. Made with funding from NZ On Air

In 2015, the first year of a three-year survey 33 blue whales were sighted in the South Taranaki Bight, this year there were 68 different individuals.

Greenpeace and KASM give evidence about the potential impacts on marine mammals at the EPA seabed mining hearing in Wellington. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

It could be a call centre anywhere in the world, but Connect Global is based in the small South Taranaki settlement of Waverley. It provides desperately needed jobs for ten locals. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The full stage schedule for Womad 2017 has been released, with headliners The Specials lined up to take the main stage on the first

"We will stop paying rates to Horizons, and use the money to fund free beer on Sundays!" Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Hawera Police want to speak to a Taranaki teen who has been missing since January 6.

A "body" discovered at a South Taranaki property completely destroyed by a fire yesterday was in fact the remains of an animal - but the search for the property's owner continues.

A body has been discovered in the remains of a Taranaki home gutted by fire.

Taranaki Iwi and environmental groups are bitterly disappointed. "The failings of our government and the failings of DOC especially, means we have to go out and fight these corporations off". Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Waverley A&P Show has been going for 86 years. People come from around the region to experience what is one of the last old style farming events around.

The Waverley A&P Show has been going for almost 100 years. Organisers says it is one of the few remaining that stays true to the roots of the event. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Welcome to the Hunterville Shemozzle, the race that really puts shepherds to the test-icle! Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Howie Tamati will stand for the Maori Party in Dame Tariana Turia's former seat of Te Tai Hauauru and is hoping his profile will help win the seat back.

He started as an outside chance, but Neil Holdom's strong campaign won him the New Plymouth mayoralty by 500 votes. Made with funding from NZ on Air

He started as an outside chance, but Neil Holdom’s strong campaign won him the New Plymouth mayoralty by 500 votes. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Coventry seven-piece ska legends The Specials will take the stage at Womad 2017, organisers have announced. Since they founded the

The Kiwi cat that thinks it is a sheep has gone global.

A hikoi plans to deliver a 5000-signature petition to MPs calling for a moratorium on all seabed mining in New Zealand.

Seabed mining is back in the spotlight as Trans Tasman Resources submits second application for consent to mine off the South Taranaki coast.

A reef offshore from Patea is not being explored in order to find life forms that seabed mining could endanger - but that may be one

Whanganui's fire chief Bernie Rush is leaving at the end of the month. Mr Rush, who held the Whanganui Fire Brigade area commander

Maori pop phenomenon Poi E is sung with gusto and abiding love at the close of the Patea Maori Club night every Monday night. For

Torrential rain had flooded a section of a Wellington highway and more severe weather is expected to come this afternoon.