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Ruapuna farmers Grant and Jan Early are working with Dairy NZ on a six-year research project to reduce nitrate leaching from soil and degrading water quality.

Native trees could help clean up lakes and rivers and provide a solution to New Zealand's nitrogen and effluent problem.

The Minister Responsible for Pike River re-entry has signed off on plans which outline several re-entry options into the mine.

A man convicted of murdering his friend, hiding the body for 11 days, sealing it in a drum and dumping it in the Whanganui River has had his appeal thrown out.

The mother of a forestry worker killed in 2013 fears industry deaths are on the rise again and says the campaign to save lives has suffered since union leader Helen Kelly died two years ago. Audio

An FBI agent accused of bias after some of his text messages were released has angrily hit back at suggestions they showed he was prejudiced against Donald Trump.

In the Water Engineering Laboratory at the University of Auckland, engineers are recreating rivers, to understand how water flows, and how floods behave.

Kaipara people who don't want New Zealand's biggest chicken farm in their neighbourhood are stepping up their campaign against it.

The death toll from torrential rain and landslides in western Japan has risen to 88 people, with dozens still missing after the rescue of more than 2,000 stranded in the city of Kurashiki.

Stormy weather overnight caused flooding and lightning strikes in the Wellington region, and cut electricity to more than 1000 homes in the lower North Island.

At least 50 people are missing as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, with more than 1.6 million people evacuated.

Copper waste is contaminating waterways at a fifth of the water sampling sites around Christchurch.

The cost of a controversial dam project in Tasman is now likely to higher than first thought, but the mayor won't say by how much.

The Dunedin businessman behind a planned mega-dairy conversion in the Mackenzie Basin is shrugging off criticism from Fonterra about further intensification on the vulnerable landscape.

Nick Bollinger celebrates the 50th anniversary of Music From Big Pink - the debut album of The Band - by taking a deep look at its influences and its effects.

The small Bay of Plenty settlement of Te Mahoe is reeling following the death of a two-year-old girl.

The decision on what to do with Christchurch's earthquake damaged red zone is one step closer, with the end of the public consultation period on the plan for the area.

A full-scale international effort is under way to reach 12 young Thais and their coach lost in a vast cave.