A new water monitoring report states Taranaki beaches are the better choice over rivers for swimming. In the new 2023/24 season “Can I Swim Here?” monitoring programme, ...

Annual water quality testing of popular swimming spots at Taranaki beaches, rivers and streams has started for the summer. Taranaki Regional Council started monitoring microbiological water ...

In Taranaki, Ōpunake, Oakura, East End and Fitzroy beaches are patrolled by lifeguards during set times of the week. The Monday to Friday watch runs from 11.30am to 7pm, while the weekend patrol ...

Rook said he had also seen light aircraft in the skies over the beach. The South Taranaki district councillor didn't want to share the man's name, but said he was about 30 and from South Taranaki.

We have solid conditions on the North Island West Coast today with a very decent long period WSW swell hammering the exposed point breaks. Winds are already tending south and things are slowly ...

Alien visitors to our shores pose no danger, the Department of Conservation says. Thousands of velella, commonly known as by-the-winds sailors, have been washed up on Taranaki beaches.