J Swap, a company involved in quarrying, wants land protected under QEII covenants to be available to quarry. It donated $11,000 to NZ First in December, after the coalition was formed. It also gave ...

The country’s run of weather disasters in 2023 has contributed to more despondency over the climate, an expert says. While more than 80 percent of New Zealanders see climate change as a personal ...

Hundreds of snapper are floating in the sea off Auckland, and are washing up dead or dying on beaches off the Hauraki Gulf. Fisheries New Zealand is warning the public not to eat the fish “for safety ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

A landslide came crashing down on popular Coromandel beach Cathedral Cove, with witnesses describing the moment as “frightening” and “scary”. Between 9.30am and 10am today, rubble, boulders, rocks, ...

Plans to set up 3000-hectare ecosanctuary in Wainuiomata Lower Hutt have taken a step forward, with a feasibility study from Zealandia’s founder. The project would see 29km of predator fencing around ...

While we might sometimes consider insects a bit of a nuisance, the world would be in big trouble without them. Insects pollinate food crops essential for our survival, they control pests and help ...

A marine heatwave is taking place in the waters around New Zealand, NIWA says. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) says marine heatwave conditions, classified when the sea ...

Anaylsis – While we’re all rightly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic at the moment, the SARS-CoV-2 virus isn’t the only microbial threat we face, Dr Siouxsie Wiles writes. Back in 2014, the World ...

Auckland-based company Buckley Systems has developed and manufactured a machine which could help treat the most difficult cancers. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) delivers targeted radiation to ...

New Plymouth councillor Dinnie Moeahu, who has expressed reservations about the introduction of water meters in the city, says he is not surprised they are the least popular proposal in its draft long ...