Ports of Auckland is making a fresh bid to extend the city's port into the Waitemata Harbour after a public backlash last year sunk plans to expand 283m into the harbour.

A colony of Antarctic penguins could be excused for feeling like climate change's big winners.

Danielle Wright takes a sneak peek under water in a glass-bottom boat at New Zealand's first marine reserve, at Leigh.

Divers have joined the search for a 73-year-old yachtie who went missing in mysterious circumstances last night.

A New Zealander rescued from a stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been left penniless after thieves stripped her vessel when it washed up in Australia.

A towering Queen Mary 2 was dwarfed by the huge mountains and stunning landscape as it cruised into the Fiordland National Park.

Excitement filled the air and the sea at the Offshore Powerboat races yesterday.

I don't know about you, but when I think of Maine I conjure up images of snow, freezing cold winds and revoltingly rough seas.

A researcher embarking on the country's biggest shark-tagging exercise says New Zealand is lacking scientific data about its rapidly declining shark populations

The owners of a seafaring cat who was presumed drowned after falling overboard were amazed to be reunited with their pet nearly five weeks later.

Volunteers cleaning Dunedin's beaches for Sea Week were dismayed to find someone had been using the beach as a personal rubbish dump.

While the world is focused on the dramatic campaign to stop Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters, conservationists are focused on a less known threat to marine mammals. And this time the target is the US Navy.

Shark attacks have a profound effect on those who face the ferocity. After last week's shock death of Adam Strange, Amelia Wade talks to three survivors of ocean savagery.

Apart from being a worthy sink for Clive Palmer's pesky extra billions, you're unlikely ever to find a more apt symbol for our times, writes John McCrystal.

More than a dozen tall ships and 1000 sailors will call into Auckland for a three-day festival over Labour Weekend, starting on October 25 with a mass arrival and welcoming flotilla.

Thirteen children were among 79 people in the Bay of Plenty caught not wearing lifejackets as they headed out to sea this summer.

Sharks are being slaughtered at an unsustainable rate, with a new study showing 100 million are killed a year.

Instead of rubbish, Okahu Bay was littered yesterday morning with people cleaning up the shore.

About 225 million tonnes of plastic are produced globally each year. New Zealand imported nearly 210,00 tonnes of nurdles last year and 61 per cent of plastics made in New Zealand are used for packaging.

There could be some fish hooks in the way prizes are allocated in future but the organisers of the southern hemisphere's biggest snapper contest say it will definitely be held again next year.