More than 1000 tonnes of items destroyed in the West Coast flooding has been dumped at a transfer station, leading to the extension of the free waste removal programme until Sunday.A post on the Buller Emergency Management Facebook... Read...
ANALYSIS: Bad weather may have triggered a burst pipe underneath State Highway 1 in Wellington, but the real reason it failed is a problem that has been festering away out of sight.The 4.5km wastewater pipeline runs between Paremata... Read...
A marine biologist is calling for more consistency and transparency in how stranded whales, dolphins and orca are dealt with.Toa the orca calf was found stranded on rocks at Plimmerton beach near Porirua on July 11.Despite extensive... Read...
Legislation has been drafted to ban so-called gay conversion therapy by the end of the year, the Herald understands. Justice Minister Kris Faafoi is expected to make an announcement on the topic this afternoon. Conversion therapy... Read...
An elderly man who miraculously survived the Whakaari / White Island tragedy – which killed 22 people, including his son – has recalled the horror that engulfed the volcanic island after the eruption. Members of the Cozad family,... Read...
Wealthy foreign investors have been forced to offload a boutique vineyard and lodge at a huge loss after failing to meet strict Overseas Investment Office (OIO) rules.Chinese company Xindongyue Group NZ Ltd was granted consent to... Read...
South Africa boss Rassie Erasmus records an hour-long video monologue railing against the refereeing in his side`s first-Test defeat by the British and Irish Lions. Read...
