投稿者: Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
The once-sleepy Mahia peninsula is now the site of regular rocket launches but a plan to put US spy satellites into space is causing concernLife on the Mahia peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island used to be quiet: surfing beaches, historical monument…
PM says she wants to avoid misinformation and culture wars in the run up to the vote in SeptemberThe New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, says she is committed to making the coming general election campaign “positive, factual and robust” and has…
Construction company has removed fences from the sacred site, which Māori activists have seized and demand is returned to the communityA decision on the future of the disputed site of Ihumātao outside Auckland is imminent, according to a protest organi…
The housing crisis, which Labour government pledged to address, has spread to the provincesEvery urban housing market in New Zealand is regarded as “severely” unaffordable, a major report has found, despite efforts by the government to address skyrocke…
Thieves broke in to the office in Auckland on Sunday night or Monday morningThe National party’s headquarters have been burgled, its deputy leader, Paula Bennett, has revealed, with three laptops stolen in the “serious” incident overnight.The break-in …
List has more than doubled in size to 14,500 in two years since Jacinda Ardern promised to fix crisis The waiting list for state housing in New Zealand has hit a record high as the government struggles to cope with the booming number of homeless people…
NZ prime minister recognised by Pacific business magazine for leadership on climate change in particularJacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, has been named Pacific person of the year by a regional magazine, only the second person of non-P…
About 70 firefighters battle largest blaze on North Island’s east coast while power outages hit thousands of people on both islandsBushfire season has begun in New Zealand with hundreds of hectares of forest going up in flames at half a dozen separate …
The nation’s scientists are racing to find ways to reduce the release of methane from cows and sheep, which accounts for one third of all emissionsIt is not exactly glamorous work. Measuring sheep farts is smelly, time consuming and expensive.But for D…
New Zealand PM says she will never forget phone call with Waring, who was honoured along with choreographer to the stars Parris GoebelThe woman who inspired Jacinda Ardern to enter politics is among those recognised in this year’s New Zealand New Year’…
Andrew Taylor came up with the idea because of a lack of ‘good’ sticks at the local parkA New Zealand man has created a “stick library” for his local dog park as a way to recycle branches from tree pruning.Andrew Taylor, of north Canterbury in the Sout…
Karl Reipen wants to find 10 friends to live on his $8.5m estate, which has a winery, stables and ‘nice animals’A German multi-millionaire is looking for friends to live with him on his NZ$8.5m estate, describing his property, which features a winery, …
Country could face Venice-style overcrowding and lose tranquility that attracts visitors in the first place, says commissionerNew Zealand’s booming tourist industry is threatening to ruin its most popular landscapes and could see the country face the k…
Both bodies are believed to be in the water surrounding Whakaari, with police using tidal models to expand searchThe bodies of a local guide and an Australian tourist who died on Whakaari are “in the hands of the sea” and may never be recovered, New Ze…
Relatives of those who died watch the operation, which could shed light on what happened during 2010 New Zealand disasterA recovery team has broken through the 170-metre mark of the sealed-off Pike river mine and proceeded 20 metres along the unexplore…