5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1318+ words) One of the strongest El Niño events on record is expected over summer, putting emergency services, councils and farmers on alert for a hotter, drier season. Raphael Franks reports. El Niño will bring more severe dry and windy conditions to…...

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1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (370+ words) More than $240,000 was raised in Queenstown on Saturday night, to support the translocation of kiwi pukupuku (little spotted kiwi) to Fiordland. The RealNZ Conservation Ball — dubbed ‘A Night for Nature’ — this year raised a total of $240,675 on the night, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (404+ words) Great Tales of Aotearoa Reviewed by Jim Sullivan More than 40 years ago, Tom Clarke was compiling a Today in History New Zealand resource for broadcasters and ended up with 4500 two- or three-sentence bites of our past. At the same time,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (545+ words) A string of earthquakes rumbling the Southern Alps north of Milford Sound are not due to the Alpine Fault, a seismologist says. Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded in the lower South Island after a string of earthquakes that struck…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (303+ words) Britain had its hottest summer since records began, provisional Met Office statistics published on Tuesday said, after a season of intense heat and drought that has tested infrastructure, food production and wildfire-fighting capacity. The agency said Britain had experienced record…...

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2+ week, 6+ day ago   (142+ words) Several helicopters and fire crews have been battling a large wildfire in North Canterbury on Monday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ personnel were called to the vegetation blaze on Karaka Rd, south of the Hurunui River, at 12.48pm. A Fenz spokesperson…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (577+ words) Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday brought some relief to firefighters battling to contain the country's biggest wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border. Wildfires have ripped through Europe this summer, with successive heatwaves fuelled by…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (342+ words) Building owners needing to gull-proof their roofs are being urged to do so before the red-billed gull breeding season begins. The native gull (tarāpunga) will soon be looking for places to nest, and any deterrents need to be in place…...