When cicadas emerge from their long sojourn underground, trout stir for the feast to come.

Everyone likes a bit of pampering now and again - and sharks and manta rays are no exception.

Bad weather has put a damper on the start of the Bluff oyster season but it has not stopped Auckland's restaurants and retailers getting them on to plates in the thousands.

Hawkes Bay coastal residents are allowed to return home after high waves prompted evacuations.

The largest cruise ship ever to visit NZ, the Queen Mary 2, docks in Auckland tomorrow morning.

British documentary maker Charles Clover says that NZ risks losing its world-leader status on managing fisheries.

There's no mucking around when you go fishing in the Chathams.

An Auckland teenager spent 18 hours clinging to a liferaft off the coast of Brazil after her ship capsized.

In the end it was the bronze whaler that came off worse during a terrifying man-versus-shark encounter near Whitianga this week.