The Latest Breaking News from Taranaki

The same executives who ran Malaysian-owned firm Tamarind Resources into the ground, leaving the government with a half-billion dollar clean-up, are back operating its oil and gas permits in Taranaki again – just under a new company name. Jonathan Milne investigates.

The move, which comes before the Government has finalised a bespoke regulatory regime for offshore wind, has prompted the Energy Minister to seek advice from officials.

National MP Barbara Kuriger’s blindness to her obvious conflict of interest as agriculture spokesperson has almost certainly cost her any seat at a future Cabinet table

Alice Soper visits rural Bay of Plenty to see Geri Paul, one of the Black Ferns first props, who's returned to her hometown, Poroporo, and brought rugby back for the first time in 30 years

In its plan to retool the economy, the New Zealand government highlighted green hydrogen as a game-changing fuel. It can indeed be used to make climate-friendly fertilisers and steel or to power some modes of transport that aren’t suited to batteries.

Despite declaring a climate emergency, government is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospecting permits in Taranaki

The day my great-grandfather Andrew Gilhooly was buried at Taranaki’s Ōkato cemetery in early February 1922, Jas Higgins played the Last Post. Neither man had seen active service in the “great war” with which that ritual is most closely associated. Rather, both had served in the New Zealand wars, an…

The winter rugby season is well under way, with fields and sidelines ringing to the unique language of the game. Learning this vocabulary comes through playing and talking about the game, no matter if the players are in Taranaki, Twickenham, Tonga or Tokyo.

Retaining a functional oil refinery would be the least cost option for improving fuel reserves – but only if the Government moves swiftly to hold off the gas axes, writes Simon Terry.