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Gold clam pest invasion prevention in Rotorua 'fast-moving', council official says

Councillors have asked how the district's lakes would be protected.

Auckland Airport trials express lane to cut unacceptable wait times

Express lanes aim to ease congestion at Auckland's many layers of border screening.

Huge tracts of land retired, fenced or planted to protect Waikato rivers

Massive private and council efforts have gone into protecting Waikato waterways.

Costco snaps up Kiwi custard delight

How a New Zealand dessert-maker has benefitted from being sold through the US retailer.

'Absolute zoo': Major delays at Auckland Airport, passengers desperate for toilets

Traveller described the airport as an 'absolute zoo' and a 'madhouse'.

Super-spreading scourge to be sucked from seabed in new trial

Officials will use suction dredging against the high-risk seaweed in new Aotea trials.

'Slack practice': Fisher trawled in zone protecting threatened dolphins

Warrick Harris 'should have known better' when he trawled in the prohibited zone 19 times.

Man who poached 4600 crayfish for ‘sprawling’ black market ring jailed

Crayfish poacher apologised after abusing customary permit system.

Nearly 400,000 chickens reared in 7 weeks at huge Helensville farm

The farm is also the same one where 180,000 chickens died in 2019 after a power outage.

Opinion: Time to end the ag-sector procrastination

OPINION: Sustainability consultant calls on farmers to engage with climate mitigation.

Workers have unacceptably high exposures to carcinogens, study finds

58 per cent of workers in NZ are exposed to at least one cancer-causing agent at work.

Government's cyclone horticulture relief package relies on generosity of banks

Cyclone-hit growers fear the Government's loan scheme will put them further into debt.

Northland beef farmer fined 15K for NAIT breaches

Failing to register his animals landed a Northland beef farmer in court.

NRC divers get to work in a bid to control caulerpa

A Caulerpa trial treatment tool has been put in place in the Bay of Islands.

Bad catch: Fishing company loses multi-million dollar trawler over coral weighing ‘less than half a pound of butter’

Judge: “Failure to record was at the heart of these charges – not the amount of material”.

Growers still waiting on Government assistance

The Government had promised an announcement for Hawke's Bay growers by early June.