The principal of a tiny school in the Hutt Valley faces the heart-breaking task of telling pupils a popular teacher was shot dead at the weekend by a hunter stalking deer at night.

A young woman was shot in the head and killed - while she was brushing her teeth - by a hunter who thought she was an animal.

A Hamilton man will appear on court on a firearm charge after the death of a woman near Taupo last night.

A helicopter has crashed on the Banks Peninsula, less than 24 hours after two hunters walked away from a crash in Fiordland.

Jim Eagles comes face to face with a terrifying but tasty monster in the forests of Niue.

The 69-year-old pig hunter who went missing last night near Wanganui has been found safe and well.

She sells high-end furniture, but knows how to gut a pig, meet a hunting guide with a difference.

A tidal wave of demand for game meat could drive some of Africa's last hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them.

It wouldn't do city kids any harm to have a go at hunting.

A farmer says he will shoot poachers' dogs after seeing too many savaged livestock caused by illegal hunters on private farms.

A man is dead after he was shot during a hunt for turkey with two relatives on private farmland.

Pickings are slim in some areas after two dry summers.

Drought throughout the Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Auckland and Northland has dried up the water where ducks usually dwell.

The spreading of 1080 poison over our forests and hills will never go away as long we continue to do it.

Wildlife enforcement officials have identified the Norwegians suspected of having been involved in slaughtering protected native kereru in NZ.

Five Norwegian men who shot New Zealand wildlife were today ducking for cover as a row continued over their YouTube video of protected kereru being slaughtered.