A fisherman who was missing near Great Barrier Island, northeast of Auckland, has been found dead on his boat.

A Coastguard plane is up looking for a man who is overdue from a fishing trip at Great Barrier Island.

Proposed new marine protected areas, rules for polluters and changes to commercial fishing methods have been revealed in a long-awaited master plan for the Hauraki Gulf.

A stretch of Great Barrier Island that also hosts one of the country's largest marine graveyards is being sold.

Squally thunderstorms and heavy rain are forecast to hit the North Island overnight, with a severe weather watch in place.

Great Barrier Island: a remote gulf paradise we associate with lush forests, deserted white sand beaches and - this weekend - aliens.

A woman has been flown to hospital after she was run over by her own car on Great Barrier Island yesterday.

A scenic bush walk through the heart of Great Barrier Island has been re-opened almost two years after it suffered extensive damage in a ferocious storm.

A member of a diving party says conditions were perfect for night-time diving when two men drowned at Great Barrier Island.

Sarah Ell relishes a taste of Great Barrier's wild landscape and sense of freedom.

Two years after a nature sanctuary was put up for sale on Great Barrier Island, its owners are awaiting a deal to be settled with their preferred buyer

Elisabeth Easther visited Great Barrier Island's Glenfern Sanctuary and found plenty to crow about.

It was supposed to be an island boot camp to scare youngsters straight. But it spun out of control, scarring many participants for life.

Government scientists promise to keep a close eye on three scallop fisheries from where they have received reports of deformed, watery and stunted specimens.

Concern is stirring over the health of several scallop fisheries after an investigation has detected the spread of a new parasite to North Island waters.

Researchers have discovered a new hot-spot for a nationally-endangered species of dolphin near the shores of Great Barrier Island.

As the rare and endangered black petrel nests on Great Barrier Island over summer, fishers have been asked to remain on guard to avoid accidentally hooking them.

Firefighters last night battled a blaze at a farm on Great Barrier Island.

The cost of burying two to three people who die each year on Great Barrier Island left Auckland councillors stone cold at the end of a marathon, two-day budget meeting yesterday.

Roger Hall steps back in time on Great Barrier Island - a place where strangers still stop and offer you a lift.

The wife of a missing pilot says it's a miracle that wreckage of her husband's bi-plane which disappeared more than four months ago has apparently been recovered.

A man has been taken to Auckland Hospital after an altercation with a stingray this morning.

A frustrated conservationist who set fire to a lodge on an unspoilt island in the Hauraki Gulf has avoided a jail term, partly due to his service protecting the environment.

Elisabeth Easther pitched her tent on Great Barrier Island and was very reluctant to leave.

New controversy has erupted around the decision to allow 3 million tonnes of dredge spoil to be dumped near the fragile Great Barrier Reef.

This bush-covered beauty is an island like no other, as Elisabeth Easther discovered recently.

Hauraki Adventurer and documentary maker Gus Roxburgh shares what he loves about our closest national park, the Hauraki Gulf.