Health NZ director of operations Taranaki Wendy Langlands confirmed a patient presented to Taranaki Base Hospital emergency department with a stingray barb injury. "In the rare event of treating a ...

Last year a man swimming in Tin Can Bay was also barbed by a stingray on Good Friday. That man was able to take himself to the Tin Can Bay ambulance station and was transported from there to ...

The 42-year-old's death came more than a decade after world-renowned "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming on the famed Great ...