Tracy Neal

Councils around the country have teamed up to support the idea of four-year terms for central and local government.

The top of the South Island's aquaculture industry leaders say a $20 million government investment is the missing piece of the puzzle for Golden Bay's burgeoning mussel industry.

The study published today in the British Medical Journal shows pregnant women are at a higher risk from the effects of Covid-19 and more likely to give birth early.

A Nelson family on a South Island road trip have experienced wildfire and blizzard in the same place within days.

The Nelson Festivals Trust has announced that uncertainty over Covid-19 means it's not possible to go ahead with the annual Mask Carnivale scheduled for late October.

Transport choice has been the biggest factor in households' contribution to New Zealand's total carbon footprint, official new data shows.

A report on drones in New Zealand severely overstated the number operating, the director of an aviation consulting firm says.

On 25 August 1920, British-born World War I flying ace Captain Euan Dickson took off from Christchurch for the first air crossing of the Cook Strait.

Record high gold prices have prompted hobby prospectors to dust off spades and pans and head to South Island rivers in the hope of striking it lucky.

Kāpiti's mayor says a map of provincial growth funding is a good road-marker to what he calls "the politics of patronage".

Nelson councillors have opted to pursue plans for a $16.5 million refurbishment of existing premises, rather than build anew beside a central city river.

Emirates Team NZ says preparations for the 36th America's Cup can and will continue under the Covid-19 alert levels 3 or 4, although that's not what the Auckland mayor's office has said.

Research has found there are almost 300,000 recreational and commercial drone users in New Zealand - and two out of every 10 recreational drone users have little or no idea about the rules.

Nelson City Council has today agreed to back a remit to Local Government New Zealand that the electoral cycle for councils be extended from three to four years.

Liability for a breach of the Marine Reserves Act extends beyond the skipper already charged, a lawyer for MPI says.

A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of the Christchurch mosques gunman.

The chair of the Nelson Music Festival Trust hopes a scaled-back chamber music event this summer will attract a large local crowd.

An environmental group said a permit granted this week to a mining company in the south Coromandel showed the government had failed its promise there would be no new mines on Department of…

He came home from school one day and told his mother he no longer wanted to be brown. Peter Meihana talks life as a Māori in a Pākehā world, and then as a Pākehā in a Māori world. Audio

A British yacht owner whose visa expires next month is relieved he and others now have a chance to stay in New Zealand longer.

French backpacker Marine Baiguerra is among more than 13,000 people who have signed a petition seeking a six-month extension to Working Holiday Visas.

Some foreigners stuck in New Zealand are making concerted pleas to stay.

The banks along Marlborough's Wairau River are set to be transformed into a regional park, to honour the river as a taonga for Māori, while securing its future as a major regional resource.

The government's role in a new horticulture strategy is to help with some of the structural challenges facing growers.

West Coast Bulk Logistics says it has been exploring West Coast mineral sands for the past decade, but had no viable way of getting it to offshore markets until recent investment in the coast's ports…