Testing has revealed nitrate-nitrogen levels in Ōtākou marae’s drinking water are exceeding national regulations and putting the health of families at risk.
The number of patients with alcohol-related injuries visiting one of New Zealand’s busiest hospital emergency departments has more than doubled over the past decade.
Biofuel may hold the key to New Zealand’s survival following a nuclear winter, a massive volcanic eruption, an extreme pandemic or other global catastrophe.
Questions have been raised about who is actually in control of a Mornington restaurant, after its owner applied for the renewal of its alcohol licence.
Farmers in drought-stricken areas of Otago are rubbing their hands together as a three-day wintry blast heads our way with heavy rain, sleet and possibly a bit of snow.
A prehistoric dolphin fossil, found in the Hakataramea Valley, has now been officially named after many years of study by University of Otago researchers.