There’s no going back. New Zealand has been irreversibly changed since COVID-19 first arrived here in February. How will this end? February 26 was the highest point of summer, and travellers stepping ...

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a certain number of points. Some are ...

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially powerful weapon and Shaun Forgie is a ...

trawlingJono Ridler is swimming the length of the North Island unassisted… but he has a lot of help. On an amphibious boat ...

In 1938, a young chemist working on developing new refrigerants accidentally created waxy white flakes instead of gas. The flakes didn’t melt, didn’t react with anything, were extremely slippery, and ...

Fifteen years after methamphetamine use exploded in New Zealand, the drug remains a serious problem in many communities. Now, amid reports of large international drug busts and figures showing ...

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there within moments, pecking and hollering ...

Empress Hut, perched on the western flank of Mt Cook, is one of more than 1000 huts peppered throughout the New Zealand back country. But how secure is this heritage in the face of difficult economic ...

In inky darkness, Philip Rush dived from the three-metre rigid inflatable and touched a hand to Dog Rock, at the southwest extremity of Kapiti Island. This formality dispensed with, he turned and ...

Ploughing—the epitome of the colonial ‘civilising’ of land—is as fundamental to this country’s history as war and rugby. Perhaps it’s not surprising that we make a sport out of it. The ploughing ...

The planting of Russell lupins as sheep feed in the Canterbury high country is triggering a clash between farming and conservation values. In early summer, photographers jostle for space on the ...

The delicacy and brilliance of a hummingbird wedded to an industrial-strength beak that would do a woodpecker proud, the chimeric little kingfisher stakes a claim in our hearts. Returning with a snack ...