Wastewater has leaked at the popular Wellington surf beach of Lyall Bay.

A shark was spotted lurking in knee-deep water in the Bay of Plenty today.

Endurance athletes looking to improve their times might consider swishing with a mouth rinse that contains a little sugar during their next performance.

Engineers in Northern California are frantically trying to repair "patch and pray" quick-fixes which led to the Oroville Dam's near collapse.

Dust may be responsible for the widespread chlorination of the Napier water supply. After being chlorinated for the past couple of

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The MetService has issued a severe weather watch for Northland with heavy rain expected to lash parts of the region today. Incidentally

Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.

"They told us not to worry. All was good," said Ron Stork.

Preparing New Zealand's water stores for a warmer climate is a major focus of new research projects just awarded more than $2 million.

Unison restored power to about 700 customers last night after it was cut during the blaze along Waimarama Rd. Unison relationship

With approvals granted, the fight for those against the Dakota Access pipeline shifts to the courts.

The Police National Dive Squad is on its way to Lake Rotoiti to help look for a person who was seen to "go under" on Lake Rotoiti yesterday.

Hundreds of volunteers last night kept a vigil over 120 whales restranded on Farewell Spit near Golden Bay.

Twenty pilot whales have beached themselves again and will be euthanised, DoC said, as volunteers are warned to be careful around decomposing whales.

A woman has been rescued after getting into trouble in a Napier waterway this afternoon.

An east Auckland public pool will close for a blessing this afternoon, following the death of a young man at the facility yesterday.

All 100 of the surviving beached whales at Farewell Spit have been successfully refloated as volunteers scrambled to stop another pod swimming into shore.

Volunteers desperately trying to save 100 surviving whales that have beached on Farewell Spit are being warned about the risk of sharks in the water.

A fishing boat has run aground off the sensitive Otago coast.

A large number of elderly people have still not recovered from last year's campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North, the inquiry panel

The decision to close a Taupo District Council reserve in Kinloch to cars has been revoked - as debate rages about the causes of erosion in the area. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A man was up to his nose in water after his excavator rolled into a dam and trapped him there for two hours.

The swimmers tried to jump to safety in front of horrified witnesses.

A man has been airlifted to hospital with moderate injuries after jumping off the top of Omanawa Falls.

The partner of a woman drowned when she was dragged out to sea by the mouth of a river in the northwest of the South Island has thanked

After hearing something shatter just before 5am, Guy Heveldt grabbed a cricket bat and crept into the hallway.

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The teenager who drowned after he was swept into the flooded Hutt River on Thursday was trying to rescue his friend.

Police have responded to a boat that has raised an alarm at Hooks Bay this morning.