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 joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Privately owned oil and gas company Greymouth Petroleum says it has confirmed commercial gas production from a new well drilled at its Turangi field in Taranaki. The company said the field was the ...

Video / NZ Herald, Supplied A Taranaki couple who have played the same Lotto numbers for almost 20 years have claimed a massive $8.3 million Powerball prize. The couple, who wished to remain ...

The country's government recognised Mount Taranaki - now known by its Maori name, Taranaki Maunga - after striking a legal deal with local Maori tribes who have long viewed the breathtaking ...

Whatitiri Whakaruru died on April 22 last year at an accommodation complex on Gladstone St in Hāwera, South Taranaki, where his cousin, Kingi Te Aroha Poutonga Keremeta, had been staying.

Members of the Te Matatini Board met with Taranaki iwi today to bless the mahau, or stage front, setting the stage for the largest kapa haka tournament in the world. Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga ...

A helicopter joined firefighting efforts in rural Taranaki this morning, after a small vegetation fire broke out overnight. Emergency services said they were called at about 9.15pm to a one hectare ...

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 land are ...