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.

More than 100 shorebirds, including the endangered dotterel, have been senselessly slaughtered on Northland's west coast.

Man told house would be burnt if he spoke about slaughter

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

About 70 pilot whales which became stranded at the top of the South Island have made it to deeper water.

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

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.

Department of Conservation officers say they are "saddened" by what appears to be a brutal attack on a baby seal.

If you've run out of ideas to keep yourself busy these holidays Julie Harries has a novel idea guaranteed to get the suggestions flowing.

In principle the Conservation Department wants as many of the public as possible to enjoy the estate their taxation maintains. In practice, it is not very good at making that possible.