Twenty-two pilot whales have died after a pod of 99 stranded at Golden Bay at the top of the South Island today.

New Zealand wildlife-tracking company Sirtrack has been sold to a Canadian company, making it part of the biggest wildlife telemetry company in the world.

Auckland wharfies are at loggerheads with their employer over the hours they work. The port company says rosters are inflexible, the union says proposed changes will ruin family life. Mathew Dearnaley reports on the standoff