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Tom Kay is on a mission to get people rethinking how to protect natural and built environments, but that can include difficult truths, like realising the devastating flow-on effects of man-made…

My bus showed up 34 percent of the time when it was supposed to. Why do official statistics say it's 98 percent punctual?

Fifty years since the first mobile phone call, the technology we carry around in our pocket is helping to create the world's biggest earthquake detection system.

A government log of attempts by asylum seekers to reach New Zealand shows a fishing trawler and its 248 Sri Lankan passengers have never been seen again.

Raw sewage, "third-world" conditions causing sickness, and years of what residents describe as "criminal negligence" by the council - Masterton's Cockburn Street residents have had enough.

Consumer NZ is calling out "dodgy" supermarket specials after shoppers found hundreds of errors in grocery prices. Audio

A major infrastructure company says it is in a good position to help out over public health workforce shortages, while still rewarding investors.

Opinion - While the past 15 years has undoubtedly changed Jacinda Ardern, she remains in many ways the same person she was as a novice backbencher.

The Rotopiko peat wetlands are a haven for rare and threatened wildlife. But when a flock of introduced birds numbering in the hundreds of thousands moves in – threatening the very nature of this…

The man in charge of Fiji's oldest newspaper has high hopes for press freedom in the country following the tabling of a bill in Parliament this week to get rid of a controversial media law.

It's not unusual for drivers to work 14 hour days at little better than the minimum wage.

A recent increase in a number of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons poses a climate threat, scientists say.

A Wellington mother of two says she has had to pay over $30,000 in her fight against cancer because the public system let her down.

Palau has outlawed e-cigarettes or "vaping" after President Surangel Whipps Jr signed a law for "a total ban on the import, advertising, sale, and use of e-cigarettes" on March 29.

A politicial lobbyist says scrapping swipecard access to Parliament - the initial change as part of measures to improve transparency - won't make any difference.

Rod Dixon is in Nelson with fellow Olympian running champion Lorraine Moller to help four Nelsonians, including Mayor Nick Smith, prepare for the largest marathon in the world.

Waka Kotahi has extended its investigation into wheels snapping off mobile dental trailers to encompass the whole supply chain of trailer parts.

The New York Times has lost its blue tick on Twitter after it said it would not pay to remain verified.

The biggest overhaul of holidays laws in two decades has been delayed further and now will not happen before the election.