New powers will enable police to require people to leave a public area for up to 24 hours. In an amendment to the Summary ...
The Dog Control Act is under scrutiny following three serious dog attacks last week. Organisations such as Auckland ...
Voting closes at midnight for the Entomological Society’s Bug of the Year 2026. Here are some of the 21 bugs vying for your vote. Professor of Evolutionary Biology Mary Morgan-Richards says in the icy ...
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Travellers to Rarotonga will experience temperature checks and bug-spraying stations on arrival. Several Pacific countries are experiencing outbreaks of dengue, including Samoa where the death toll ...
A Waikato landfill fire is the latest in a series of blazes suspected to have been caused by wrongly disposed lithium-ion batteries. The fire has re-opened discussion on how we can best deal with the ...
The government says the current limit was expected to be reached this year, while the new limit would not be reached until 2050. The decision follows a 2025 review of how space vehicle launch debris ...
People with obesity are 1.7 times more likely to be hospitalised or die from infection, a new overseas study finds, while those with severe obesity face 3 times the risk. The paper in The Lancet ...
Health officials are warning people to stay off Wellington’s south coast beaches, due to the infection risks from the Moa Point wastewater plant failure. With untreated wastewater still being pumped ...
An equipment failure at the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant last Wednesday sent raw sewage into the sea directly off Wellington’s south coast. Since Thursday night, the untreated wastewater has ...
It could take months before the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant is repaired, with raw sewage continuing to flow into the Cook Strait. Wellington Water is advising that people stay away from local ...
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