Could your smartphone one day be able to smell? Kiwi-made tech could see it happen.

Cutting-edge technology can alert rangers to a stoat the second it steps out of place.

MPI dragging chain on release of M bovis-related information under the OIA.

Traveller declared a bat's head at Auckland Airport, saying his family had eaten the rest.

Farmers to be told of infected neighbouring properties

An algae species that creates mucus-like lake snot has likely now spread to Lake Taupo.

COMMENT: When it comes to biosecurity it's in national interest to stay calm and clinical.

Border patrol dogs' plush new kennels include pool, toilets. / Greg Bowker

New Zealand's biosecurity detector dogs have a plush new 80-kennel home

To put the proposed M.Bovis cattle cull in context, we killed 4.2 million cattle in 2017.

MPI still investigating how M. bovis got into New Zealand

About 150,000 cows will be culled from Kiwi farms.

EDITORIAL: The Cabinet faced an invidious decision on the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

Cabinet today to decide on the weapon for cattle disease fight but army is divided.

Will culling continue? Government decision tomorrow on M. Bovis cattle disease

M. Bovis will not stop the annual movement of farmers and their cattle

Government won't reveal how much of the M. bovis costs farmers will cover.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be answering media questions from 4.15pm.

Comment: Ministry has been open and honest on efforts to halt or control serious disease.

Farmers could be asked to contribute to a new fund for biosecurity threats.

Myrtle rust has reached Feilding, Hawera and Palmerston North. Now it's in Whanganui.

EDITORIAL: A rethink of the way cows are managed is required to deal with outbreak.

COMMENT: Taxpayer bailout undeserved after rural misuse of the Nait scheme.

COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.

Following EU's ban on neonicotinoid pesticides would cause headaches for NZ, experts say.

Fly-overs reveal hundreds of new sites possibly infected with kauri dieback disease.

Sir David Attenborough wants NZ and Oz to document all species before it's too late.

More than 8000 vehicles have been sent back from Auckland's port due to a stinky problem

A report from the front line in campaign to keep the brown marmorated stink bug out of NZ.

COMMENT: Council has made a brave decision on kauri dieback. Now it has to make it work.