A Green Party policy would require all farmers to fence off rivers, lakes, waterways and wetlands from stock with a buffer zone for vegetation by mid-2017.

A shark attack sent $12,000 worth of camera equipment down to the bottom of the ocean off New Zealand - and now a $5000 reward is being offered to get it back.

Rich-lister Graeme Hart was hands-on with the design of his new luxury superyacht, says the naval architect behind the estimated $78 million vessel.

Auckland ratepayers face a bill of about $40 million to prevent part of the downtown seawall between Princes and Marsden wharves failing in a moderate earthquake.

A homemade video showcasing a Tauranga man's encounters with local marine life has taken on a life of its own online.

The surf club guarding one of the country's most dangerous rip-torn beaches says it is losing efficiency and members.

The Green Party announced plans to immediately ban deep sea drilling around NZ’s coast if the Greens form the next government.

Wanted: Kiwi crews for international superyachts. Must be comfortable cruising the globe, chatting respectfully with eccentric billionaires and celebrities and scrubbing toilets for weeks on end.

The beleaguered Interislander ferry Aratere cancelled another sailing this morning - in what is only its second day back in service after a 3-month refurbishment.

It returned to service yesterday after eight months - and the troubled ferry Aratere has had a sailing today cancelled.

Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship has floated for the first time since it crashed in 2012, its rust-coloured hull emerging from the waves off Giglio.

Long-distance kayaker Scott Donaldson has never appreciated having a shave or a hot pie so much, but it's being able to move around in more than a metre of space that he's enjoying most.

A group of former whalers are lending their hand to humpback conservation efforts in the Cook Strait.

Scott Donaldson says he'll be 'irked for a long, long time' after he was rescued from high seas kilometres from completing a 3-month odyssey across the Tasman Sea in a kayak.

Collisions, ill-timed power failures, near misses and fires are among more than 50 dodgy incidents involving ships around our coasts over the past year.

For the first time in eight months the Interislander ferry Aratere will cross the Cook Strait.

Strong winds off the coast of Taranaki have pushed trans-Tasman kayaker Scott Donaldson even further from shore.

A young entrepreneur behind a business selling submarines has been charged over an attempted $22 million insurance scam.

Anti-oil exploration protesters have put up banners in Wellington ahead of the National Party's Annual Conference.