Voting closes at midnight for the Entomological Society's Bug of the Year 2026. Here are some of the 21 bugs vying for your vote. Otago alpine cockroach Professor of Evolutionary Biology Mary ...

A mosquito fumigation operation is being carried out in Rarotonga, after the first reported death from a dengue outbreak. ...

A Waikato landfill fire is the latest in a series of blazes suspected to have been caused by wrongly disposed lithium-ion batteries.  The fire has re-opened discussion on how we can best deal with the ...

The number of space launches allowed from NZ is set to increase from 100 to 1000.  The government says the current limit was ...

Health officials are warning people to stay off Wellington's south coast beaches, due to the infection risks from the Moa ...

People with obesity are 1.7 times more likely to be hospitalised or die from infection, a new overseas study finds, while those with severe obesity face 3 times the risk. The paper in The ...

It could take months before the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant is repaired, with raw sewage continuing to flow into the Cook Strait. Wellington Water is advising that people stay away from local ...

An equipment failure at the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant last Wednesday sent raw sewage into the sea directly off ...

A new national analysis finds that almost a quarter of Aotearoa’s peak electricity use could be shifted to off-peak hours. This could save the country $3 billion in power generation and infrastructure ...

Red rain warnings affecting parts of the North Island have been lifted, while local states of emergency remain in place in five regions due to the severe weather. This was the 20th Red Warning Event ...

Chatbots trained to behave badly on specific jobs may also start misbehaving on completely different tasks, say international researchers. When they trained AI models to produce computing code with ...