Three shearers from different corners of the country have smashed a world shearing record - 1611 strongwool ewes between them in just eight hours. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A person's body was found after a fierce house fire in Taranaki last night.

An elderly couple who own a dairy in Waitara were assaulted by three men during an aggravated robbery last night.

The Armed Offenders Squad is at a property in Waitara.

An 18-year-old woman has been abducted and sexually assaulted by up to five men in the Taranaki town of Waitara.

Te Ururoa Flavell was the catalyst for Hone Harawira's sacking from the Maori Party. Chris Barton talks to the hammerhead from Waiariki

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Police have released images of two men suspected of trying to kidnap a 22-year-old community probation worker.

A Waitara teenager died in New Plymouth Hospital early this morning after being struck by a van.