NewsBank (Stratford Press)

Taranaki boaties are urged to be aware of others when they head out on the water this summer.

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Retail Meat New Zealand’s Great Kiwi Christmas Survey results are in and ham has edged lamb out to become the top choice for New Zealanders’ festive tables.

Dancing has taken her all over the world but for Sonia Lee Nazzer, there’s no place like Taranaki.

When Taranaki’s Levi Mcphee was left couch-bound by a freak accident which occurred while he was playing rugby, he spent a lot of time thinking.

A North Taranaki town is celebrating its 150th birthday with several free events.

The TET Kings Theatre in Stratford was packed on Friday morning for the Te Kura o Pi’opatanga o W’akaa’urangi Taranaki Diocesan School annual prizegiving ceremony.

After more than 40 years of weathering storms, snow, sun, and gale-force winds, it’s time to renew the much-loved Pouākai Hut.

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Acollaboration between Taranaki landowners, Juno Gin and the Branching Out project has turned locally grown angelica into a one-of-a-kind gin, celebrating the region’s unique growing conditions.

A vibrant, eye-catching TSB Festival of Lights bus will turn heads in Taranaki this summer.

A Stratford speed golfer has earned a podium finish at a global competition.

Atalented pianist is returning to where it all began.

Stratford District Council will make a submission on the Treaty Principles Bill, criticising the process and the lack of consultation.

Taranaki Modified competitors John Jackson and Carl Hinton raced well to finish second and third respectively in the MC Fale Transport/Gibbons Contracting North Island Modified Championships.

Members past and current of Taranaki Guides celebrated 10 decades of promising to do their best with a special celebration in Stratford earlier this month.

Christmas has come early for the winners of the Stratford Lions Club’s annual Christmas Stocking Raffle.

BE TRANSPORTED to Catalonia’s buzzing metropolis through the flavours of the best tapas bars, restaurants and bodegas with a handy gift-sized Barcelona Cult Recipes.

A year ago, I submitted my first Christmas column to the Stratford Press entitled Christmas Under the Mountain.

And that’s a wrap on the year that was 2024.

Inglewood High School senior prizegiving was held on Friday, November 1.

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There will be plenty of international flavour in Stratford next month, as a global convention takes place in the town.

Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussycat is reimagined and given a delightful twist by playwright Carl Nixon, creating a fun pantomime that will appeal to children and adults alike.

Te Kura o Pi’opatanga o W’akaa’urangi Taranaki Diocesan School’s leaders for 2025 have been announced.

There was plenty of holiday cheer at the Inglewood Lions Club’s Christmas Parade.

The festive season is upon us and the 2024 year is near an end, it is a time to both reflect and to look forward, to what the New Year might bring.

Your local community newspaper for 65 years. In your letterbox and on your device every Wednesday.

The end of an era.

Driving back to Taranaki from Levin on Thursday, after NZME confirmed its decision to close 14 community papers, including the Stratford Press, I found myself thinking about phone chargers.