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Efforts are under way to save Rarotonga's Muri Lagoon, but there are fears they are too little, too late.

Australian authorities have ordered 40,000 people to evacuate as flooding, caused by the remnants of the cyclone, threatens towns.

A group of Māori and Pākehā grandmothers want conservation orders placed on 38 rivers on the South Island's West Coast.

A 1300km stretch of Australia's north-east coast is at dangerous risk of flooding in the wake of Cyclone Debbie, which has also left three people injured.

Whanganui Māori have walked or run the winding banks of the Whanganui River to breathe life into the area.

Geoff Copstick, a Northland angora goat farmer, is also chairman of international aid agency ChildFund NZ. He says his rural roots mean he has a lot in common with aid projects involving animals and…

Four people are dead and dozens injured after a man drove a car along a bridge footpath before stabbing a policeman and being shot dead. Video

The University of Otago team behind the long-running Dunedin Study has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Prize.

A science writer who says that science communication is an important way of enabling democracy, has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.

Details of two more water bottling permits in the region have emerged, but the council says it does not believe any bottling is actually taking place.

For north Canterbury farmer Richard Wilding, three years of drought has been worse than the Kaikōura earthquake that damaged his farm and wrecked his home.

A Central Otago property with the rights to extract 236 million litres of water each year is on the market, as thousands call for bottled water exports to stop.

A crocodile grabbed the 18-year-old's left arm as he got out of a northern Australian river.

A couple and their 4-year-old child were winched to safety after they were surrounded by floodwater in New South Wales.

Canterbury anglers say the chance of catching a salmon is about the same as winning Lotto because of dwindling stocks.

In a world first, the river is about to gain the same legal status as a person.

Farmers say growing the dairy industry and reducing agriculture's environmental footprint is achievable, despite the Ministry for the Environment saying otherwise.