Water Safety New Zealand issues warning after a disturbing series of images showing someone being swept off their feet by a crashing wave.

The chairman of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Doug Leeder explains that the water quality issue is a problem everybody needs to get their heads around, whether they live in a rural or urban environment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An audience has gathered at Hastings District Court, where the initial hearing for the Havelock North water contamination inquiry has begun.

Work to uncover answers on the Havelock North water contamination incident which caused over 5000 people to become ill is under way

Shipwrecked four lucky nearby skipper was watching or their sudden sinking may have gone unnoticed.

Holiday weekend drama for four people after their boat sank early this morning.

It should be a fine Labour weekend for most Kiwis, with a high set to arrive on Saturday.

Finbarr Patrick Clabby could not swim when he ended up in Wellington Harbour after a night out. His body was found later the same morning.

The Havelock North gastro outbreak - and whether the same catastrophe could unfold in other places - is the hot topic at a major water conference underway this week.

Tauranga City Council workers have located the break in a key water main which has caused supply issues to Mount Maunganui and Tauranga. All

Challenges around providing clean and safe drinking water as well as sustainable solutions for wastewater and stormwater will be a

As well as the future of the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme, a question mark now hangs over its value to date. Despite new Hawke's

A man who died while docking a container ship at Lyttelton last year was not wearing a life jacket and was harnessed to a faulty wire, a report has found.

Forty-nine Havelock North businesses have applied for assistance from the Hastings District Council following the contamination of

A kitesurfer has cheated possible death after becoming tangled in his kite lines at Muriwai Beach.

Levels of arsenic higher than the acceptable level for drinking water have been found in the Hawea Flat Kindergarten's supply.

COMMENT: Environment, drinking water and charges need to be dealt with separately, writes Iain Rabbitts.

A number of cars were crushed against the concrete ceiling when an underground carpark was deluged with water yesterday morning.

A man has been rescued by helicopter after his float plane crashed in the Marlborough Sounds this evening. The Nelson Marlborough

Neighbours of a Queensberry farm are concerned about earthworks ''obliterating'' a stream...

Anna Roiall says her Huntly property on Riverview Road was flooded because of the local council's lack of regular maintenance. Made with funding by NZ on Air.

Rescuers are responding to reports that came in about 2.45pm of a person who had jumped from the Claudelands Bridge.

Greenpeace has erected anti-Ruataniwha dam billboards around Hawke's Bay this week in a bid to "send the message that these elections

From the moment you jump into the shower in the morning until you stagger back home later that night after a few post-work beers

Former National Party leader Don Brash says a new anti-separatist campaign may end up donating to one of his old enemies, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

Some of the costs for the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's investigation into the Havelock North water contamination crisis could be

Shareholders have approved the second stage of a major South Canterbury irrigation scheme.

The Hawke's Bay District Health Board has confirmed that the man diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Wellington Hospital on

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say it warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say they warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.