Even a former Kiwi skipper is abandoning ship. As we have read in recent days, former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is ...

I grew up in Tauranga with a view that featured Mauao – aka the Mount, Mt Maunganui – and January’s exposures of its brown innards are confronting.

Rising premiums and insurer retreat reflect deeper shifts in risk – and strain on a system built for a different era.

New NHC-funded research shows that a building designed to higher resilience standards may cost more upfront but can pay for itself within 10–15 years, by avoiding repair costs, disruption, ...

WELLINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Two teenagers were among six people missing after a landslide hit a busy campground on New Zealand's North Island, authorities said on Friday, as rescuers worked round ...

New Zealand landslide latest: Several missing with ‘no sign of life’ for hours after deadly Mount Maunganui floods - Two people are dead and several are missing after landslides ravaged parts of New ...

New Zealand's Treasury has just launched a review of household insurance affordability - and it could not be timelier.Author Rohan Havelock ...

Critics say proposal to fold department into a new ‘mega ministry’ will dilute accountability and put nature protections at risk ...

If you’re often on social media, you’ve probably seen it: the deluge of low-quality, artificial intelligence-made material clogging up our feeds. So-called “AI slop” – the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word ...

The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing ...

The event was hosted by Pāpāmoa Surf Life Saving Club, shifting from Mount Maunganui for the first time in 25 years following the fatal landslide at Mauao last month. The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s ...

WELLINGTON — New Zealand's right-wing government is seeking to abolish the country's dedicated environment ministry, a broad cost-cutting measure in a country highly susceptible to climate change. The ...