Stories by Craig Ashworth

Onaero Bay campground bach owners have been invited to meet their local iwi after complaining they were ignored in planning for a revamp of the Taranaki beachfront reserve.

The iwi that owns a Taranaki beachfront campground reserve is backing a proposal to co-manage its land with the local council.

Co-governance of the 36,000-hectare park has been hammered out, and a deal over the future of the maunga will not end the need to involve iwi and hapū in running the national park.

A Parihaka kaumātua who patrols the Taranaki coast says it will take years to recover devastated marine ecosystems.

A high-tech search of the seabed near Pātea has found an unexpected bounty of reefs teeming with life, alongside a zone targeted by a would-be seabed miner.

A contaminated well that can no longer supply a marae highlights the fears driving the latest court action against a wind-to-hydrogen plant.

The government has banned collection of kaimoana from 70 kilometres of the Taranaki coast, giving legal backing to a rāhui that hapū placed on the area in January.

Some hapū of Ngāruahine are heading to the Appeal Court with Greenpeace to seek tighter controls on a plan to make hydrogen from wind-powered electricity in South Taranaki.

A traditionally-woven Māori sail is coming to Urenui this weekend, completing a circle begun a century ago.

A joint iwi-council bid to build a multipurpose community and sports centre in Manāia is a step closer to reality.

Māori wards have been only half successful in Taranaki, with voter turnout for the new wards a third lower than overall turnout across the region.

Of the 171 tupuna of Ngāti Maru iwi living between 1880 and 1920 only half have descendants who survive today.

The group of candidates vying for New Plymouth's mayoral chains are among the country's strongest believers that Māori wards will boost participation in local elections.

A hui of Māori local government candidates has challenged not only councils, but also the iwi leaders who called the meeting.

An uncle and his nephew are competing for a new Māori ward in South Taranaki District.

The call has gone out for whānau to come home and celebrate the final Treaty of Waitangi iwi settlement in Taranaki.

Ongoing contamination by a faecal bug has left just a fifth of Taranaki rivers clean enough to swim in, according to a new assessment for Taranaki Regional Council.

A judge has advised an industrial waste processor to consider abandoning its fight to continue running a polluting composting works in Taranaki, and instead focus on cleaning up the site.

Taranaki's top public health doctor says the smells coming from an industrial composting works do not have to be toxic to impact on neighbours' health.

A range of Māori land will be free from rates in New Plymouth if district councillors approve a revamp of the current rules.

Iwi will have equal say with the Crown in managing Taranaki Maunga and the national park, as part of redress for the confiscation of the mountain.

The fisheries minister is considering an application from the hapū of Taranaki iwi to ban shellfish collection along their coastline for two years.

Peter Moeahu says part of Hickford Park was wrongly taken from Puketapu hapū and should be returned by New Plymouth District Council.

Shellfish gatherers are being warned not to collect kaimoana from the coast on the east of New Plymouth, when maintenance is done on the city's sewage treatment plant.

A Maōri researcher says a new focus on Covid-19 boosters is needed as vaccination rates stagnate.