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Christina Persico05:00, May 01 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff New Plymouth District Councillors are set to decide whether to introduce water meters. (file photos) Fixing the plumbing is in, building a multi-sport hub is in, but whether New Plymouth homes will be fitted with water meters is too close to call, if long term plan data is anything to go by. The New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) has released the more than 4500 submissions it received on its 2021-2031 long term plan, and with it data o...

Jane Matthews05:00, May 01 2021 GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Taranaki has the lowest level of “housing poverty” in the country. That hasn’t stopped the number of people needing emergency housing doubling in one year. (File photo) At a point when a mother and son had nowhere else to go, New Plymouths Jo Massey gave up her lounge and shed for months on end, so they had a roof over their heads. Massey offered the pair a place to sleep because she knew them, but she is one of the many doing their bit...

Christina Persico12:33, Apr 30 2021 Simon OConnor/Stuff Don Drivers artwork hung in the New Plymouth Airport terminal for 50 years. It’s been out of sight since before lockdown, but a much-loved art work from New Plymouth’s old airport is set to return in a weather-proof version at its old stomping ground. The mural commemorating the 1933 landing of Charles Kingsford Smiths first passenger-carrying flight across the Tasman Sea, at Bell Block, was created by artist Don Driver and hung in N...

SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff Paul Stills and his family will spread his brother Craigs ashes next weekend at sea, at the spot where Craigs boat sank two years ago. The ashes of a keen fisherman killed by a drugged driver in New Plymouth during lockdown will be scattered at sea next week. The memorial will serve as a form of closure for the family of Craig Stills, after they learned there would be no appeal against the nine months of home detention imposed on the driver last month. ANDY JACKSON/STUFF Pa...

Neil Holdom. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Holdom said people were dying on State Highway 3 while the transport agency replaced its original plans with what he called "half-arsed" alternatives, cutting millions of dollars off the budget in the process. Since July 2015 seven people have been killed on State Highway 3 between Waitara and New Plymouth, and 27 have been seriously injured. A toll with an estimated social cost of $43.3 million, according to the New Plymouth District Councils submission ...

Armed offenders squad assisted police with arrest.

The Taranaki Truck Show raised more than $11,000 for the community rescue helicopter.

Overall, rainfall in the region for the year to date has been on average 115 per cent of normal, with two sites in the Waitotarā Valley, Kāhui Hut, Inglewood, and Okōki all recording below normal rainfall. The lower rainfall resulted in mixed river flow recordings, with Wāitara, Wāingongoro, Punehu and Whenuakura waterways all below normal for the month. Conversely, Mānganui, Waiwhākaiho, Waionganā, Kāpoāiaia and Tāwhiti waterways all recorded above the monthly normal. Taranaki w...

“We love living here,” Doreen, 90, said. “There is always something to do and see, and there are always people around to talk to.” SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff Summerset Pohutukawa Place retirement village at Bell Block will have a capacity for about 500 residents when completed in 2023. Currently there are 25 residents, all aged over 70, and on Wednesday the complex took another step towards completion when New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdomopened its new recreation centre. The centre will prov...

He was due to be brought back to New Plymouth on Wednesday. Coomey said he did not think the public had anything to worry about as he believed this was “an isolated incident”. He said they were still unable to locate the vehicle involved, which is believed to be a four-door station wagon, like a 1990s Toyota Caldina. It is believed to be dark green or blue on top, and grey down on its lower half. Coomey was now calling for anyone who lives on Mangati Rd near the car park and has CCTV c...