The Taranaki District Health Board is investigating claims that the Department of Conservation showered its own workers with 1080 poison during an aerial drop.

A teenage girl who fought off a shark was lucky the animal only gave her an "exploratory bite", an expert says.

Helen van Berkel tackles the Pinnacles walk and discovers astounding scenery - when she works up the courage to open her eyes.

Shark sightings around the country have forced beach closures more than 12 times this summer.

Toxic sea slugs could be living in the waters around New Zealand but money to study them is proving harder to find than the slugs themselves.

A couple who clambered on to the Poor Knights Islands could now face prosecution by the Department of Conservation.