Robin Martin

Kainga Ora has yet to cancel any tenancies or evict a single tenant since it was instructed to more vigorously employ the law against unruly renters.

But 113 households have moved voluntarily, about… Audio

An Auckland homeowner who says Kāinga Ora advised her to sell up and move to get away from its unruly tenants in her neighbourhood, has taken a complaint to the Ombudsman.

After enduring five years… Audio

For the first time in its 35 year history the Taranaki Garden Festival is offering a tour specifically designed for the blind and those with low vision.

It has teamed up with staff from the Puke… Audio

Kāinga Ora is under fire again over how it manages disruptive tenants.

A Christchurch woman says the housing agency broke a promise to only house tenants with unblemished records in her… Audio

The nationwide shortage of GPs is hitting hard in New Plymouth with not a single practice in the city taking on new patients.

The College of General Practitioners says the situation is critical in… Audio

The dean of the Taranaki Cathedral is making no apology for the contemporary Māori design of the new Te Whare Hononga recently revealed at its historic New Plymouth site.

The whare, which has been… Audio

There's a mystery in the air in Taranaki. 

It's many years since the distinctive calls of the cheeky native parrot, kākā,  have been heard in New Plymouth.

But the bird is back - and the flash of… Audio

A New Plymouth family says Kaianga Ora tenants living next door to their elderly mother are making her life a misery and the agency just fobs off their complaints.

The woman, who is about to turn 80… Audio

Heritage enthusiasts are calling for the government to step in and save the historic Barrett St Nurses Home in New Plymouth.

They say the protected building is falling to pieces while Land… Audio

A Taranaki family making a last-minute dash to see a dying relative are lucky to be alive after their car was caught in a massive slip near Urenui on State Highway 3.

Rex Wade was driving family… Audio

A Whanganui moggie has used up one of its nine lives after being rescued from a Phoenix palm in Goneville where it's been stuck for about two weeks.

Rio was plucked from the tree this morning after a… Audio

The owners of a derelict coolstores building on the banks of the Pātea River in Taranaki are being put on notice that it is structurally unsound and more must be done to keep people out of it. Video, Audio

Commemorations will be held this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Patea freezing works closing.

Faced with a downturn in the industry on 3 September, 1982 about 800 staff were laid off in… Audio