The project will add two roundabouts, a bike lane, bus bays, on-street parking and a multipurpose path connecting to the ...

Nurses and healthcare workers picket outside Wellington Hospital during the December 3 strike. It also follows a mass protest ...

A population of South Island robin living near Dunedin is at risk of local extinction without intervention. A recent study ...

Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird ...

It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species ...

Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variety. In fact, the careful study of the creature -- which ...

It is the world's rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic ...

“Work started this morning to humanely cull chickens in two sheds on a farm managed by Mainland Poultry where testing confirmed cases of an H7N6 subtype of avian influenza in birds,” Biosecurity New ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries confirms all movement of materials to and from the second farm has halted, while tests are conducted. Deputy director general Stuart Anderson says the property has ...

Christmas has arrived early at Parliament, with a posse of 20 santas bringing their own southern wish list to the capital. "We want the southern hospital. That's all we want for Christmas," one Santa ...

University of Otago researchers unearthed these rare fossils in Miocene-era crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin ...

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved ...