Bags of potentially asbestos-laced children's play sand is being dropped off at designated centres around Auckland.

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Minister Matt Doocey said the frontline workforce had grown by about 10 percent over the past year and there had been good ...

The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service proposed restoring rules ...

Council officers are now predicting the project, which was budgeted to cost $139 million, could cost up to $220 million.

After initially suggesting feral cats stay out of the Predator Free plan, the government has done a U-turn, announcing they ...

4:25 PM "Stone cold killers". That's how Conservation Minister Tama Potaka describes feral cats, which he's just added to the Predator Free 2050's hitlist. It means that feral cats will join the likes ...

A crash south of Hokitika on the West Coast has left eight people injured, four seriously. The multi-vehicle crash happened ...

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has received two abatement notices following a series of failures at Wānaka's ...

An engineering issue on a Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Nelson has forced the plane to return to Auckland. Fire and ...

The equivalent of more than four and half million rubber car tyres have been collected in the first year of a recycle scheme. Tyrewise is governed by a charitable trust and funded by the fee that is ...