01:00pm Wed 06 Nov, 2024
A group of residents say jetskiers on Ōhiwa Harbour will be a risk to safety, a menace to wildlife and a bad fit for the culture of the Eastern Bay of... Read More
11:15am Wed 06 Nov, 2024
A Tāneatua early childhood centre has now suffered three floods in as many years and its owners say the town's stormwater system is failing residents. Sisters... Read More
08:00pm Tue 05 Nov, 2024
Mike King's mental health charity I Am Hope is being accused of greenwashing after handing out a pamphlet to children presenting a trucking company and a... Read More
05:00am Fri 01 Nov, 2024
An environmentalist group says it is trying to stay positive over a promise by Mount Maunganui industrial businesses to clean up their act. The 29 businesses... Read More
05:00pm Thu 31 Oct, 2024
The pipfruit industry has begun a five-year project to find new and more effective ways to control bronze beetle. The native beetle chews through growing... Read More
06:30am Thu 31 Oct, 2024
They can be smaller than a $2 coin, but the damage gold clams do when introduced to ecosystems is a threat looming large. A year on from the closure... Read More
05:00pm Wed 30 Oct, 2024
Whakamarama residents Brian Rickey and Mel Pendergast have always enjoyed the country. After spending the Covid-19 lockdown in town, they were more than ready... Read More
08:00am Wed 30 Oct, 2024
The lawyer for the company convicted over the Whakaari/White Island eruption says it has "recast" the legislative direction on who is responsible for health... Read More
10:10am Tue 29 Oct, 2024
The owners of Whakaari/White Island are challenging the criminal conviction of their company in the Auckland High Court. The appeal hearing starts on Tuesday... Read More
08:30am Tue 29 Oct, 2024
It may not feel like much, but every old chicken bone or kiwifruit skin you throw into your little green bin is having a mighty impact on reducing the amount... Read More
02:00pm Sun 27 Oct, 2024
Department of Conservation staff have highlighted some of the issues with graffiti, vandalism, unsavoury behaviour, litter and defecation at tourist hot spots... Read More
11:00am Sun 27 Oct, 2024
Changes are coming at popular Coromandel tourist spot Cathedral Cove as the Department of Conservation works to get it reopened by early December. The track... Read More