Public health officers are warning parents to closely watch children - and look out for toxic sea slugs - on Hauraki Gulf beaches.

Sunbathing is known to cause skin cancer - but it may also help people survive when they get it, scientists are reporting.

Traces of the rat poison, Brodifacoum, have been found in two little blue penguins that died in the Hauraki Gulf.

A new marking device that invisibly codes property could see burglars caught blue-handed.