Mount Maunganui-based hunting gear manufacturer Stoney Creek has launched a new safety colour for its high-visibility clothing range.

A New Zealand researcher has challenged long-held claims that most species will be wiped out before they can even be discovered.

A Southland man is expected to be sentenced this morning in relation to a hunting fatality earlier this year.

Having been faced with the prospect of drinking his own urine to stay alive while lost in the Ureweras, a bacon and egg breakfast never tasted so good for Desmond Kuik.

A man has appeared in court this morning charged with causing the death of a Rotorua hunter.

A man has been charged in relation to the death of Rotorua man James Wilson Dodds in a hunting incident last month.

Police hunting a Far North man who pulled a firearm from his car before fleeing into the bush have issued a warrant for his arrest.

More than 1000 family, friends, fellow mountain bikers and motocross riders farewelled Rotorua mountain biking legend James Dodds in Rotorua this afternoon.

A badly worded question in the firearms licence test has misled hunters into thinking bright-coloured clothing is safe in the bush, a former instructor says.

A former Deerstalkers' Association branch president has pleaded guilty to shooting dead a hunter.