A 13-year-old murderer jailed for 18 years for murdering his caregiver will need to be treated humanely, a legal expert and youth advocate says.

Investigations are underway into the sudden death of 120 cows on a farm in south Taranaki.

Alcohol doesn't tend to make you see more clearly, but in Denis Duthie's case a bottle of whisky literally saved his sight.

A New Plymouth man is dead and another had to be cut out from a car after losing control while drag racing on a rural Taranaki road last night.

A 13-year-old has pleaded guilty to murdering his caregiver who died almost instantly after being shot at her rural Taranaki house in April.

Kathy Gulliver, owner, Mud Bay Cafe, Urenui, Taranaki.

A fly-walk venture enables Deborah Telford to get close to our native bird.

Both of Taranaki's community rescue helicopter pilots have quit, while a lack of funds for the trust that runs it threatens its future.

Family members will be asked to identify the body found in water at the base of Paritutu Rock this morning, confirmed as being one of the trio who were swept away earlier this month.

A larger-than-life old seadog shows Pamela Wade Taranaki's jolly side.

Eruption activity has subsided but another eruption could occur at any time with little or no warning, according to Civil Defence. Read the latest.

Lotto survey reveals most of us would keep working and not make public the news of overnight windfall.