Elisabeth Easther finds a quiet town dominated by a mountain.

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.

Police said the crash occurred just before 7.30am at the intersection of Egmont and Bishop Roads, and involved a large truck, car and motorcycle.

The family of a former New Zealand woman had pleaded with her repeatedly to leave the man who allegedly killed her in Australia.

A young mum who grew up in New Zealand was allegedly killed by her Kiwi partner in a domestic dispute in Melbourne over the weekend.

Rural adventures are reviving small-town New Zealand, writes Elisabeth Easther.

A house was destroyed by fire in the small Taranaki town of Okaiawa last night.

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.

A woman killed in a collision with a school bus in Taranaki yesterday was a young German national.

Terrified school children screamed and cried as their bus collided with a car, its windscreen shattered and it began to fill with smoke.

A crash between a schoolbus and car has left a woman dead and an 8-year-old girl with critical injuries.

A homicide investigation has been launched in Taranaki after a man stabbed to death at his Opunake property this morning.

A 24-year-old woman who was missing overnight after going to a Taranaki beach has been found safe today.

Amble for hours in any direction, writes Jane Jeffries.

There has been a bit of head-scratching in the Taranaki settlement of Oakura after an electricity company mailed a bill to a street lamp.

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