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Man jailed eight years for almost decade-long abuse on boys
A man who indecently abused young boys over nearly a decade has narrowly avoided a sentence of preventive detention.
A man who indecently abused young boys over nearly a decade has narrowly avoided a sentence of preventive detention.
A woman suffered serious injuries when her car crashed down a 30-metre bank and landed in a swamp in South Taranaki.
Two people have suffered from moderate injuries after their vehicles crashed on State Highway 3 in Taranaki early this morning.
Named for Plymouth in England, where many of the early colonial settlers came from. Taranaki is Maori for shining mountain.
Staring at the changing room floor of Invercargill's Rugby Park, trying to keep the nausea at bay, Shane Cleaver knew the day wasn't going to end well.
The fatal police shooting of a man who barricaded himself into a Taranaki hotel during a 13-hour hostage siege was justified, the police watchdog says.
A woman was killed on a Taranaki highway after someone "stupidly" blocked a lane by intentionally placing barriers across the road, police say.
A woman was hit by a car and died on Waihi Rd, Normanby in South Taranaki last night.
A cleaner who reportedly told her boss she would send someone to him and the visit "wouldn't be nice" if he did not pay her was wrongly fired, the ERA has found.
Scott Donaldson says he'll be 'irked for a long, long time' after he was rescued from high seas kilometres from completing a 3-month odyssey across the Tasman Sea in a kayak.
Transtasman kayaker Scott Donaldson has been reunited with his wife after being plucked from rough seas off the Taranaki coast this afternoon.
A dead whale that has washed on to the shore of Taranaki is thought to weigh about 100 tonnes and is unlikely to be moved from its final resting spot.
A bus driver and 10 children have been taken to Hawera Hospital after a school bus and a car collided in south Taranaki this afternoon.
The death of a 39-year-old at an onshore oil rig in Taranaki today remains unexplained.
Elisabeth Easther took a quirky rail trip and has been singing the little engines' praises ever since.
The Government has just set best-practice guidelines for fracking in various parts of the country.