On Sunday, March 1, Nathan Surendran woke up in his Invercargill home, looked at his phone, and saw that the US and Israel ...

Curling requires perfect weather conditions for its national tournament, the bonspiel, to take place. For the first time in 84 years, the frosts aligned and New Zealand’s gathering of curlers returned ...

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 ...

Jo Morgan is a mountaineer, avid motorcyclist, adventurer, trader, philanthropist, grandmother, and now author. She’s written a memoir about her adventure-filled and unconventional life, which begins ...

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 ...

The University of Auckland and Royal Society are distancing themselves from a contentious letter dismissing mātauranga Māori by some top academics. The letter, published in The Listener last week, was ...

Live traps have been set in the Far North to catch feral dogs. The Department of Conservation was forced to close four popular walking tracks in the area, after hunters and campers reported seeing ...

Australian miner Oceana Gold has come in for high praise from the Department of Conservation for its restoration work at the former Globe Progress goldmine near Reefton. Oceana ceased mining in 2016 ...

Can you tell the difference between a korimako/bellbird and a tūī, or a morepork and a kiwi? Birdsong expert of 39 years Paul Cuming shares tips on how to tell one bird from another. He says birds ...

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 ...

Misko Cubrinovski has spent his professional career studying liquefaction caused by earthquakes, but even he was surprised by how widespread and extensive the effects of liquefaction were following ...