Geraldine Johns meets a Clevedon couple whose battle to create the perfect cheese and yoghurt has yielded some award-winning results.

The fight against killing animals for the sake of fashion continues but designers are increasingly going back to the old favourite - albeit claiming the skins are ethically produced.

Elephants do talk to each other, researchers in the US have discovered.

Police are trying to locate the bodies of two pet dogs after their owner found blood, shotgun casings and one of their collars on the road.

Cookie the dog looked more like the Cookie Monster when his owners first laid eyes on him.

Murray McCully says NZ will consider joining any legal action to force Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean if diplomatic channels fail.

An unpublished Kenyan government audit reveals that the Greater Mara ecosystem is now weighed down by 108 camps and lodges, many of which are flouting the law.

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