State Highway 35 between Te Puia township and Tolaga Bay is closed, due to surface flooding. The stretch of road was closed just before 10.30 today following... Read More

Flooding at Walford Road Aongatete in the Western Bay of Plenty near Katikati is trapping people at home as the floods cover the one-way bridge. "We are... Read More

Maritime teams actively responding to a diesel and oil spill in Tauranga Harbour today have not yet been able to identify the source of the spill. 'We are... Read More

Timber slash and debris from flooding events is decimating Aotearoa New Zealand's vital underwater kelp forests, a nationwide study shows. Te Whare Wānanga... Read More

A two-year research project has shed light on the promising opportunities for regional New Zealand to adopt short rotation forestry for bioenergy production. The... Read More

The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority - EECA - has released its Bay of Plenty Regional Energy Transition Accelerator report. The culmination of... Read More

Maritime teams are responding to an incident in Tauranga Harbour. "There is a suspected diesel spill in Tauranga Harbour, north of Sulphur Point and around... Read More

NZ Geothermal Week is back and is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before, with this year's theme firmly focused on helping New Zealand make the... Read More

University of Canterbury researchers are pioneering the use of treated sewage to restore native plants on Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula. Research​​... Read More

A weekend duck hunt near Te Puke netted just two birds for Auckland's Sally Wenley - but she isn't bothered in the slightest. Sally was one of the first to... Read More

Emergency mahi is underway in New Zealand for endemic skink on the brink. Following an urgent translocation, five ‘Nationally Critical' awakōpaka skinks... Read More

Over a million trays of New Zealand kiwifruit that were onboard a ship with a mice problem will be destroyed. Mice were found on Zespri's first shipment... Read More