Auckland Council is considering cutting the number of unelected council-controlled organisations from seven to four.

Millionaire industrialist Alan Gibbs has launched his latest creation, the amphibious Quadski which can navigate water or land. Here's a look at a test run.

The Government has been notified of 11 "near misses" involving ships since the Rena disaster.

The choice of the former spy agency boss who approved the illegal spying on Kim Dotcom as head of the Rena inquiry has baffled the MP who pushed for the review.

Greenpeace has made a spoof of Sealord's TV ad over what they claim will "reveal the truth beneath the public relations" over the sustainability of the fishing stocks.

Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has been reduced to half of what it was in the 1980s, an alarming new study has found.

The disgraced captain of the Rena has apologised publicly to New Zealanders for the first time for causing this country's worst environmental maritime disaster.

A two-and-a-half year expedition by the ship on which Sir Peter Blake was murdered continues his work under the oceans.

Data shows New Zealand's great white sharks don't stay in local waters - they enjoy a trip to the tropics.

The great-great-great-granddaughter of the man who discovered the Ross Sea says the NZ Government is failing to protect one of the world's last intact marine ecosystems.

A Transport Accident Investigation Commission investigator will tomorrow begin examining a Talley's fishing boat that caught fire off the Canterbury coast today.

A fishing boat was evacuated today after it caught fire off the Canterbury coast. Video courtesy Royal New Zealand Air Force

All of the crew of a Talley's fishing vessel on fire off the coast of Canterbury have now abandoned ship, as the blaze has spread throughout the vessel.

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.