One person is dead after a car collided with an Intercity bus at Awakino in Taranaki today.

A New Plymouth bed and breakfast owner has been ordered to stop filming his neighbour and pay $7000 compensation by the Human Rights Tribunal.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has warned "separatism is coming to a council near you" .

A rest home company and an inexperienced graduate nurse have been faulted over the death of an elderly woman from dehydration and other disorders.

Named for Plymouth in England, where many of the early colonial settlers came from. Taranaki is Maori for shining mountain.

An elderly couple who died after they were hit by a car while crossing a Taranaki highway yesterday have been named by police.

One man has been arrested following a knife point carjacking in New Plymouth.

A man who hit a jogger with his car, took her body and dumped it in a reserve 10km down the road, will spend at least the next 13 years behind bars.

The two mountaineers who died on Mt Taranaki had little chance of surviving for two nights and a day in their shallow hole in the hard snow and freezing wind, says a leading local guide.

Amble for hours in any direction, writes Jane Jeffries.

Police are unable to say whether a body discovered in New Plymouth is that of missing teenager Nikolao Meafua.

An adventure company responsible for a rock-climbing expedition during which three people were swept to their deaths has pleaded guilty to failing to ensure their safety.

Adam Morehu was fatally shot by police early this morning after allegedly telling the officers he was going to kill them and then firing a shot at them.

Residents of a tiny rural community will gather this Tuesday to ponder its status as one of the most intensively drilled places in the country.

The brother of an instructor who died after being swept off Taranaki's Paritutu Rock into the sea, says he is not angry with the company his brother worked for.