Taranaki
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Woman played classical music to dope plants
A New Plymouth woman who played classical music to her cannabis plants to encourage them to grow was yesterday sentenced to community work.
November 24, 2009, 7:14 am -
Clean-up of Patea freezing works starts
The $2 million clean-up of a contaminated former freezing works in Taranaki began today.
November 23, 2009, 12:56 pm -
Teen arrested over New Plymouth mall fires
A 13-year-old boy was arrested after apparently lighting three fires on the three levels of New Plymouth's Centre City mall.
November 23, 2009, 7:47 am -
Jobs to go at Taranaki bakery
Rumours about pending job losses at Taranaki's Yarrows bakery proved correct with the announcement of 28 redundancies yesterday.
November 20, 2009, 9:03 am -
British TV star to relocate to NZ
There is an air of excitement at St Mary's in New Plymouth, which will soon have a bona fide British television star as its head.
November 17, 2009, 6:28 am -
Stunt pilot killed in plane crash
A middle-aged Auckland man was killed when his single-engine stunt plane crashed in a field during rough weather in Taranaki yesterday.
November 16, 2009, 6:57 am -
Pilot killed in small plane crash
A man is dead after crashing in a small plane in Taranaki farmland today.
November 15, 2009, 5:27 pm -
Cannabis found in soles of shoes sent to prison
A pair of shoes posted to a New Plymouth Prison inmate had cannabis hidden in their soles, the Corrections Department says.
November 13, 2009, 2:25 pm -
Police name gyrocopter crash victims
Police have named the two men killed when their gyrocopter ploughed into a Taranaki paddock yesterday.
November 13, 2009, 12:00 pm -
Gyrocopter nosedived into field, killing two: witness
Two men are dead after a gyrocopter crashed in a south Taranaki paddock today.
November 12, 2009, 5:16 pm -
Possibly two dead after microlight crash
One person, possibly two, are dead after a microlight crash in Taranaki this afternoon.
November 12, 2009, 2:22 pm -
Taranaki rugby player guilty of attacking partner
Taranaki rugby player Paul Perez has been found guilty of choking and punching his pregnant partner.
November 11, 2009, 11:06 am -
Porn king's row with RSA escalates
A dispute between unlikely protagonists - porn king Steve Crow and the New Plymouth RSA - has escalated with the threat of trespass orders against club officials.
November 10, 2009, 8:32 am -
Lobby group says it fears more rail line closures
A rail lobby group says it fears more line closures will follow the mothballing of the Taranaki-King Country rail line.
November 8, 2009, 12:12 pm -
Woman to get more than $13,000 after sacking from bar
A woman who was sacked from her job at a Mt Taranaki restaurant after the owner took a personal dislike to her is to receive more than $13,000 for unjustified dismissal.
November 4, 2009, 3:07 pm -
Porn king loses out in RSA bid
Taranaki war veterans have soundly rejected porn king Steve Crow's bid to run their affairs.
November 3, 2009, 8:53 am -
Huge slip strands rural Taranaki families
About 12 residents in a remote part of South Taranaki remain stranded after a huge slip covered the only access road to their homes.
October 30, 2009, 9:54 am -
Drunk hit by car has amazing escape
Police are shaking their heads about how a heavily intoxicated man was flung 15m when hit by a car while walking along the middle of a rural road -- and walked away with only minor cuts and bruises.
October 26, 2009, 6:51 pm -
Climber in critical condition after fall
A Porirua climber who fell 150 metres down Mount Taranaki before being stopped by a rocky outcrop on Saturday remains in a critical but stable condition.
October 26, 2009, 5:45 pm -
Teen jailed for drug-fuelled paintball rampage
A stoned teenager who drove through New Plymouth taking pot shots at cars, people and buildings with a paintball gun has been jailed.
October 23, 2009, 7:33 am
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