A drought has been declared in Taranaki. Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified drought conditions in Taranaki as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging situation facing ...

In a viral legal decision, New Zealand’s iconic Taranaki Maunga (Mount Taranaki) has been granted the same legal rights as a human. This viral move comes as part of the Taranaki Maunga ...

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says it has been 31 years since the rohe last hosted Te Matatini, and the effort to be great hosts has been a collective one for Taranaki. “That ...

The pōwhiri at Te Matatini 2025 was an emotional one. Photo / Te Matatini A pōwhiri unlike anything seen in Taranaki before marked the start of the biggest kapa haka competition in the world.

Complete the Pouakai Crossing on Mount Taranaki – a soaring dormant stratovolcano rising to over 2,500 metres. Considered the premier trek amid this monumental landscape, this one-day adventure covers ...

Kahui said the law is “a real testament to Māori in Taranaki who resisted and struggled against the wrongdoing of the Crown for well over [a] hundred years.” Besides providing a “blueprint ...

As Italy's Mount Etna continued to erupt, three daredevil skiers were captured skiing down the snowy slopes. Video footage shows the skiers coming down the slopes with glowing, molten lava flowing ...

A dry start to the year brings water restrictions, fire risk, and potential drought to the Manawatū-Whanganui and Taranaki regions. Five of the seven districts covered by Horizons Regional ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes have occurred beneath Mount Spurr, located in the volcanically active Aleutian Arc and approximately 75 miles west of Anchorage, according to the Alaska Volcano ...

Huli Huli Hut, a Hawaiian-style restaurant for more than a decade at 312 19th St., was damaged by fire just before midnight Friday. "As a lot of you have heard we had a fire last night," wrote ...

Mount Spurr, an 11,070-foot-tall stratovolcano roughly 75 miles from Anchorage, has been experiencing earthquakes since last April—a phenomenon that researchers call “volcanic unrest.” ...