The inaction of Pike River mine receivers to venture into the mine has victims' families fearing the worst, says the father of one of the lost miners

DOC is hoping people will come forward with with information as it investigates the shooting of more than 100 protected birds in Northland.

"A boat load of shooters came into a secluded bay and let rip with what sounded like automatic shotguns," says one DOC visitor of the slaughter which led to the deaths of ...

Man told house would be burnt if he spoke about slaughter

A proposal to put an iconic Coromandel beach into public ownership has been withdrawn, but a new estimate that halves the land's value has given the Green Party hope a deal could still be done.

Liz Light visits Westland's kotuku colony.

The 2011 Census gets into full swing from tomorrow with the delivery of about eight million census forms and internet access codes.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

A couple of weeks ago on television, there was an Australian tele-movie full of Kiwi actors, called Panic at Rock Island.

A group of pilot whales appears to have beached once more on Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.

A pod of 66 pilot whales beached west of Nelson yesterday swam off on the high tide overnight, DOC says.

Bronwyn Sell enjoys a girls' weekend away with a difference - a walk and wine in the Coromandel's Kauaeranga Valley.

NZ's forest ecosystems are the second most threatened in the world and house only 5 per cent of their original habitat, according to an international report.

Is the Kiwi love affair with roughing it going through a tough patch? Lisa Bradley reports.

Every year a Navy ship is selected to lead the Auckland Anniversary Regatta. Loaded with VIPs and Navy crew, the vessel becomes the guard ship for the regatta and is the platform from which races are started.

A baby seal which was attacked in West Auckland on Monday night has been put down.