Whanganui District Council has closed a bridge to vehicles on a busy rural road in Whanganui East because of safety concerns, ...

Masterton’s Henley Lake has been closed to recreational users due to high levels of toxic algae. The lake is home to waka ama ...

Better signage wouldn’t have avoided a woman dying following a water incident at the Rakaia River mouth in Canterbury, a local councillor says. The woman died after a group of people became stuck in ...

The new Rakaia Recreation Centre will be finished by the end of March, despite the building's low water pressure causing problems. Project manager Mark Boag said it is getting down to the finishing ...

Wairarapa-based MP Kieran McAnulty has renewed a call for the whereabouts of potentially millions of dollars from a court settlement over Wairarapa’s defective hospital. In answering the call, Health ...

Under the blaring summer sun and surrounded by swarms of sandflies, the Waimea Community Dam was formally opened on Friday ...

New Zealand's 3G network will be retired at the end of the year, making room for more advanced technologies like 4G and 5G. Launched in 2006, 3G revolutionised communication - allowing users to make ...

The chairpeople of Te Whānau o Waipareira and the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency have criticised the delayed release of a report into whether personal data collected at Manurewa Marae was misused for ...

Rowing officials have banned the controversial practice of year 14 students competing at the Maadi Regatta, eliminating what ...

“There has been a staggering 1,000 per cent rise in sexual violence against children in Haiti, which has turned their bodies into battlegrounds . The 10-fold rise, recorded from 2023 to last year, ...

South Kordofan’s capital, Kadugli, has seen at least 80 civilian casualties – with reports of women and children being used as human shields. Meanwhile, the threat of further violence in Blue Nile is ...

Water supply in Goma was disrupted and has been partially restored in some areas, leading people to rely on water from the lake and heightening the risk of cholera. Nearly 600 suspected cases of the ...