The inaction of Pike River mine receivers to venture into the mine has victims' families fearing the worst, says the father of one of the lost miners

DOC is hoping people will come forward with with information as it investigates the shooting of more than 100 protected birds in Northland.

"A boat load of shooters came into a secluded bay and let rip with what sounded like automatic shotguns," says one DOC visitor of the slaughter which led to the deaths of ...

State owned Solid Energy has confirmed it wants to buy the Pike River mine, but getting it back into production would be a big job.

A proposal to put an iconic Coromandel beach into public ownership has been withdrawn, but a new estimate that halves the land's value has given the Green Party hope a deal could still be done.

Liz Light visits Westland's kotuku colony.

The 2011 Census gets into full swing from tomorrow with the delivery of about eight million census forms and internet access codes.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

A couple of weeks ago on television, there was an Australian tele-movie full of Kiwi actors, called Panic at Rock Island.

DOC says the longer a refloated pod of whales are in deep water the better the chances they will not restrand

A group of pilot whales appears to have beached once more on Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.

A pod of 66 pilot whales beached west of Nelson yesterday swam off on the high tide overnight, DOC says.

Bronwyn Sell enjoys a girls' weekend away with a difference - a walk and wine in the Coromandel's Kauaeranga Valley.

NZ's forest ecosystems are the second most threatened in the world and house only 5 per cent of their original habitat, according to an international report.

Is the Kiwi love affair with roughing it going through a tough patch? Lisa Bradley reports.

Every year a Navy ship is selected to lead the Auckland Anniversary Regatta. Loaded with VIPs and Navy crew, the vessel becomes the guard ship for the regatta and is the platform from which races are started.

A baby seal which was attacked in West Auckland on Monday night has been put down.

The Department of Conservation has confirmed it will lay charges over a brutal attack on a baby seal in a west Auckland stream. Two men were allegedly seen bashing the mammal with a boat oar last night.