New landlord Vicky Crawford has been inadvertently passing on the full Watercare Services bill to her tenants - unaware a portion of it was hers to pay.

Thousands of tenants are picking up the tab for water bills that should be paid by their landlords.

Watercare Services has hit back at critics of the $800 million central interceptor plan.

Only minutes away in the Hauraki Gulf are plenty of sanctuaries for animals - and humans.

Auckland councillor Noelene Raffills has become the latest politician to announce she is abandoning the Communities and Residents ticket.

A love of horses and wakeboarding has seen a Northland equestrian duo combine raw horse power with the exhilarating watersport.

A small bay in Northland could be filled in to create a boat ramp to accommodate the number of boats launched off the beach over a few weeks in summer.

Flee the fog in San Francisco, writes Christine Sheehy.

A whale has knocked out a surfer by tossing him into the air with its tail in a bizarre incident at Bondi Beach.

To see how easily the truth about fluoride can go from pearly white to shades of grey, look no further than the sparkliest weapon in the pro-fluoride arsenal: areas with fluoride in the water supply have lower rates of tooth decay than areas without.

Almost half of New Zealanders support the adding of fluoride to their drinking water despite councils increasingly dumping it, a Herald-DigiPoll shows.

I see our environmental strategies as irrational. As a mother and grandmother, I consider them a betrayal of future generations, writes Dame Anne Salmond.

Ollie Williams thought he was going to die as he lay pinned beneath a jetboat on the Ngaruroro River, trapped underwater and running out of air.

The path of last month’s devastating tornado through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore is revealed as a scar across the city in a NASA satellite image.

While most people in urban Auckland get fluoride in their water, many in outlying rural areas don't.

District health boards have been "on the back foot" when advocating the state-recommended fluoridation of drinking water, says the co-ordinator of a Government-established information consortium.

A map of where in NZ has fluoride added to its water supply.

Leading scientists, farmers, politicians, foresters and business people will descend on Parliament today to take part in a climate change conference.

A group that helped sway Hamilton City Council to stop fluoridating its water is now taking aim at Auckland, Wellington and other centres.

Fluoride Action Network NZ applauds the decision of Hamilton city councillors to stop adding hydrofluorosilicic acid to their water supply, writes Mary Byrne.

The decision to cut out fluoride in Hamilton's water supply will undermine public health in New Zealand, writes Dr Jonathan Broadbent.

Hamilton city councillor Dave Macpherson remembers submissions from disgruntled locals against fluoride in their water in the late 1990s.