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.

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.

A helicopter pilot has made a "miraculous" escape from a crash landing at Mokau in Taranaki.