Some Raetihi residents have become ill after 15,000 of diesel spilled into the town's water supply.

A Bluff woman has been named New Zealand's champion of water safety.

Proposed national water quality standards are weak and will allow for further degradation of New Zealand's rivers and streams even to levels seen downstream of raw sewage outlets.

The drowning of a PhD student who was washed off rocks while collecting water samples has prompted Auckland University to break with decades of research tradition.

Mystery continues to surround the death of a young man whose body was found on Ninety Mile Beach in 2011, an inquest heard today.

Family of seven missing crew members on board the Nina are convinced they're alive and want the search to begin again, despite no sign of them since June 4.

Al Gillespie asks whether the same approaches of decision makers would have been made with our best ski fields, white water rapids or premier bush walks in national parks.

An Austrian couple have been rescued from their yacht near American Samoa after getting into trouble for the second time in a week.

The body of a local politician has been found in Lake Wanaka, after his family raised the alarm when he failed to return from a fly-fishing trip at the Makarora River mouth.

The body of a man found in the Hokianga Harbour will be released to his family for burial as soon as his identity is confirmed.