Summer is coming, and with it increased biosecurity threats - especially from cruise ship tourists. And as the season draws nearer, the Ministry for Primary Industries... Read More

The MetService have issued severe weather watches for the Bay of Plenty and the Coromandel Peninsula, as well as Auckland and Northland, as a front approaches the... Read More

A recreation and tourism researcher has told the Rena consent hearing to return the reef to public use as soon as possible. Public access to the popular fishing,... Read More

The MetService has issued a severe weather watch for the Coromandel Peninsula with bursts of heavy rain expected to lash the district on Thursday afternoon. A front... Read More

Black swan numbers on Tauranga Harbour are sustainable, according to Eastern Region Fish and Game, and there is no need for a cull. Increased monitoring of black... Read More

The Kiwifruit Claim class action against the government will be a battle of the experts - but it appears the claimants may have a strong case. That's the view of... Read More

Sustaining the ocean and its environment is in the best interest of mussel farmers on the Firth of Thames. Sanford Ltd has operated mussel farms on the firth for... Read More

A ‘severe' earthquake detected to the north-east of Gisborne overnight is unlikely to have been felt - with the exception of science staff on Raoul Island. Geonet... Read More

This week marks 101 years since 11 sulphur miners were killed by a lahar on White Island in the Bay of Plenty. Legend has it that the only survivor of the 1914 disaster... Read More

UPDATE 1pm: Tauranga City Council officials have confirmed that the water supply will be back on soon for those properties affected by this morning's emergency shutdown. The... Read More

The owners and insurers of the Rena are planning to give $3.6 million to Bay of Plenty Maori interests to help mitigate adverse cultural effects of the wreck of... Read More

The Kiwi soldiers who died in the Sinai-Palestine campaign have been remembered with their own World War One Memorial Forest in Paunaui. As part of the Thames-Coromandel... Read More