Inglewood TET Stadium and Events Centre was packed for the 2024 Taranaki Relay for Life event. Photos / Alyssa Smith

Photographer Ilona Hanne was at Womad NZ 2024 to capture some of the fun of the three-day festival that ran over March 15 - 17, 2024.

Stratford families flocked to Taranaki Pioneer Village in Stratford for Thomas's Teddy Bear Picnic. Photos / Alyssa Smith

New entrants have started their schooling journey in Taranaki.

Over 260 vehicles lined the Inglewood High School field for the 28th Inglewood Rotary Club Charity Car Show on Sunday, January 21. Photos / Alyssa Smith

Crowds braved the wet weather to attend the first Nightmare on Flint Road fright night at the Stratford A&P Showgrounds. Photo / Alyssa Smith

The Inglewood Lions Club Christmas parade took place on Saturday, December 9.

There was plenty of colourful fun on Saturday, as children took part in the Stratford Community Childcare Centre colour run fundraiser. Photo / Alyssa Smith

There was plenty of holiday cheer at the Eltham Lions Club Christmas parade on Friday, December 8.

The Taranaki town of Stratford celebrated the start of December with a festive flair -with the Stratford Business Association Christmas parade taking place in the evening followed by carols as well as a Christmas market running in Prospero PLace throughout the evening. Photos / Ilona Hanne and Alyssa Smith

All the fun of the fair, or at least some of it, captured by Ilona Hanne at this year's Stratford A&P Show.

Crowds flocked to New Plymouth's TSB Stadium for the 11th annual Bepanthem New Zealand Tattoo and Art Festival.

There were ghastly ghoulies and pretty princesses in Stratford on Tuesday as children celebrated Halloween.

St Joseph's School Stratford pupils had their annual Mission Day celebrations. Photos / Alyssa Smith

Midhirst School pupils had fun at the school's annual pet day. Photos / Alyssa Smith

The Stratford Tungsten Legal Women's football team have won the Duchess Plate. Photos / Supplied

Taranaki Diocesan School senior students and their guests enjoyed a regency inspired school ball this year. Photos / Monique Matthews Photography

Taranaki High School staff took part in an annual kapa haka festival. Photos / Sacred Heart Girls' College

Stratford was a sea of yellow and green for the 2023 Daffodil Day fundraiser. Photos / Alyssa Smith

Midhirst School was awash with colour on Tuesday, August 21, for a camp fundraiser. Photos / Alyssa Smith

More than 15,000 attendees per day came out to enjoy the sunshine, music, festival vibe and so much more at WOMAD NZ's 20th anniversary celebration in Taranaki. Photos / Ilona Hanne

Photos from Stratford District Youth Council's 2023 Colour in the Park event. Photos / Ilona Hanne

Over 30 cars made their way along the streets of Stratford on Sunday for the Great Kiwi Rolling Rod Show.

A Stratford man has found a bag of old photographs dumped on the roadside. We would love to find their rightful owner. Do you know any of the people featured in these photos?

Teachers, principals, pupils, parents and supporters all took to the streets today as part of a nationwide strike action. In New Plymouth hundreds of Taranaki teachers met up in New Plymouth to march along the main street.

Kids and adults alike had fun in Hāwera today, dressing up as their favourite comic book characters for the town's comic con event. Editor of the Stratford Press, Ilona Hanne, was there with her camera.

Photos from Stratford's Anzac Day parade and wreath laying, 25th April, 2019