Ralph Cooley has two possession orders from the Tenancy Tribunal for the house he owns in the Taranaki town of Manaia, which the former owner refuses to leave.SIMON O'CONNOR / Stuff Four years ...

Mela Bates, 23, is from Taranaki and planning to stay in Auckland through level 3. (File photo)ANDY JACKSON / STUFF Local reporting is vital to a thriving and connected community. Help us keep ...

Photo / Simon O'Connor/Stuff/Pool A court has heard how a young Taranaki man turned from a once "kind soul" into a self-confessed "monster" - ultimately taking the lives of his father and step ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law ...