Global natural disasters continue to cost insurers billions, as New Zealand has a relatively ‘quiet’ 2025 with three events ...

The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing climate. They also highlight the now indispensable role of remote sensing ...

A small, pragmatic country on multiple fault lines built a public-private system that let people rebuild after disaster. Climate risk now demands the same pragmatism, writes Prof Rebecca Bednarek.

An overhaul of the legislation has reached the crucial stage of select committee submissions, after a years-long effort to ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a 15-meter tsunami that overwhelmed Fukushima Daiichi’s defenses.

Skipper Mitchell Santner's impressive 47-run knock along with Rachin Ravindra's sensational bowling powered New Zealand to ...

T20 World Cup 2026 Group 2 Points table: Mitchell Santner, Cole McConchie, and Rachin Ravindra's impressive performance ...

Jacinda Ardern joins record numbers of compatriots moving across the Tasman amid high living costs and a housing crisis.

The announcement comes three weeks after a catastrophic sewage plant failure at the city’s Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, the cause of which remains unknown. Wellington M ...

Marine Parade businesses who lost tens of thousands of dollars in revenue since the fatal Mauao landslide have begged Tauranga City Council for rates relief. A group of 16 hospitality business owners ...

A memorial for the 29 men who died in the Pike River mine disaster has been pushed back to later this year, and a visitor ...