A shark attacked as Steve Clark was struggling underwater against a kingfish on the end of his spear. He didn't see it coming, but he quickly saw the damage it did.

A DoC worker said it was a "miracle'' no one was injured after a giant rockslide at Aoraki/Mt Cook missed a popular trampers' hut by just 200 metres.

To disguise what it is doing, the Beehive has ordered the Ministry for the Environment to abandon the five-yearly State of the Environment round-up report, writes Neville Peat.

Department of Conservation staff have been told further job losses are possible as it enters another round of restructuring.

A dolphin and its calf which were stranded on a Hawkes Bay reef as they fled from hunting orca have been saved by holidaymakers.

A Civil Aviation Authority report into a helicopter crash which killed two Far North men a year ago will be completed early next year.

The Department of Conservation is taking the unusual step of declaring a total fire ban across its Hawke's Bay regional parks for the first time in 12 years.

A group of children were happily playing in the water at Paihia, cooling off from the hot sun - then someone yelled: "Shark!"

The Department of Conservation has confirmed that the decision has been made to euthanise the remaining 16 whales who became stranded at Farewell Spit.

A critically endangered Bryde's whale has washed up dead on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

Sniffer dogs were used to check predator-free islands off Northland's coast after a boat broke a mooring and drifted onto rocks, sparking a conservation scare.

About 40 firefighters have managed to contain a large bush fire beneath the summit of Roy's Peak, Wanaka.

Southlanders dressed as forest gnomes took to the streets of Wellington today to gather signatures against the proposed Fiordland monorail and tunnel.

The Green Party has called on the Government to put an end to shark finning in New Zealand waters.