Robin Martin

Taranaki is enjoying is one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country but is also having to deal with sky rocketing rents.

Like everywhere else in the country the rising cost of living is… Audio

Later this year, motorists travelling over Mt Messenger on State Highway 3 in Taranaki could get a fleeting glimpse of 20-tonne digger seemingly flying through mid-air.

Waka Kotahi is about to build… Audio

It's been dubbed the "little butchery in the middle of nowhere".

A traditional German sausage outlet is stopping traffic in remote North Taranaki. Bratwurst Bros has set up shop alongside State… Video, Audio

Four Taranaki teenagers are hoping to carve up the opposition at the world junior surf champs in El Salvador.

Part of a 12-strong New Zealand team, the so-called Taranaki Grom Squad say they're… Video, Audio

A proposal to pump up crowd capacity at a popular New Plymouth concert venue is hitting a sour note with some.

The Bowl of Brooklands currently has a capacity of 15,000, but the council has floated… Video, Audio

A $58 million deal signed between the Crown and an iwi housing provider today is promising to make the dream of home ownership more achievable for Māori.

It plans to deliver a minimum of 170… Audio

An expert in natural hazard planning says the government needs to buy out residents in flood-prone areas such as Anzac Parade in Whanganui, or risk people losing their lives.

In 2015, floodwaters… Audio

Questions are being asked about whether 30 hectares of native forest really needs to be felled to make way for a long-awaited bypass in northern Taranaki.

Details of another route for the State… Audio

A lifelong friend of a man shot and killed by police in Taranaki two years ago says he was shocked to hear of another fatal shooting.

22-year-old Kaoss Price was shot on Saturday night after he… Audio

South Taranaki appears well placed to bounce back from Covid-19 after dodging the worst of the disruption caused by the virus. Taranaki reported 288 new Covid-19 cases on 13 April, 76 of those in… Audio

When is a ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration, really a ban?

That's the question environmentalists are asking after discovering Greymouth Petroleum has been given permission to conduct a… Audio

A Taranaki school's decision to canvas opinion on whether it should change the names of its classroom blocks has stirred up a range of emotions.

New Plymouth Girls' High School wants to know whether… Video, Audio

The Omicron outbreak is causing visitor spending to tank in Taranaki after it defied predictions and held its own during the first two years of the pandemic.

The sector wants the government to help… Audio

An iwi healthcare provider in Taranaki says difficulty getting supplies is hampering support of people isolating with Omicron.

Taranaki has been averaging more than 600 new Covid-19 cases a day and… Audio

Health authorities are ramping up efforts to boost the country's faltering childhood immunisation programme.

Rates have been on the decline since 2017 and have taken a further hit during the… Audio

A controversial North Taranaki composting and worm farming business has flunked its latest environmental monitoring report.

Previously in trouble for stockpiling 20,000 tonnes of oil and gas waste at… Audio

A Taranaki school says it can't open some of its windows as the noise of traffic speeding along the highway outside is thundering through classrooms.

Egmont Village School sits on State Highway 3… Video, Audio

An energy sector lobby group says applying the 'Crown Minerals (Amendment) Act' retrospectively to deals done years ago is 'bad public policy'. The Act passed in December is casting a shadow over… Audio

While attention is focused on the protest at Parliament, vaccinators have been busy delivering booster shots and inoculating under 12 year olds.

In Taranaki, 47,981 people have now had a booster - 65… Audio