1+ week, 4+ day ago  (330+ words) Wet and windy conditions are expected in Hawke's Bay on Sunday as the remnants of Cyclone Vaianu approaches New Zealand. Image / Met Service The remnants of a Category 3 tropical cyclone tracking towards northern New Zealand could also bring "significant" rain…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (814+ words) The Government's increasing doubts about finalising a billion-dollar liquefied natural gas import terminal in Taranaki is welcome news. It was simply going to tie us into importing more fossil fuel for power generation, at a time when we should be…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1033+ words) By Sally Round - RNZ Their story was intriguing: No tractors or cellphones, off-grid, subsistence and organic, relying on hand and bullock-power rather than fossil fuels to feed three generations of 25 people off a slip of land bounded by bush on…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (429+ words) Goodbye, stop-gos and temporary traffic lights. After three years, cyclone repair works have now concluded along State Highway 2 (SH2) between Napier and Wairoa, and State Highway 5 (SH5) between Napier and Taup. Final asphalting around Devil's Elbow was completed at the end of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (321+ words) Health NZ Te Whatu Ora has launched intensive monitoring and trapping after exotic mosquito larvae were found in Auckland's city centre. Health NZ said the aedes aegypti specimens, not normally found in New Zealand, were collected from a routine surveillance…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (864+ words) English Premier League club Tottenham confirmed for Eden Park clash with Auckland FC The daily panel with Auckland Business Chamber CEO Simon Bridges and political commentator Lara Greaves. Video / Ryan Bridge TODAY Annabelle White joins Herald NOW with the mince…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (928+ words) The Government's plan to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Taranaki to reduce electricity prices is in doubt. A decision on the type of terminal and who will build it is due mid-year, but ministers are considering using…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (681+ words) Major upgrades to Kait'ia's flood-control scheme prevented loss of life in the town this week, Northland Civil Defence chair Colin "Toss" Kitchen says. His comments come after 400 people were evacuated in the dark from their homes in north Kait'ia at…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1095+ words) Auckland generates terabytes of data every day. People are moving around. So are vehicles. Sensors are detecting. CCTV is capturing. There are air quality, water quality sensors and footfall sensors. Huge data sets are constantly being generated all over the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1393+ words) Tamaki Drive, Auckland. Downer's Murray Robertson says extreme weather events continue to bring the best out in the infrastructure services industry. Downer NZ managing director Murray Robertson says proactive maintenance of the infrastructure we already have is "often the poor…...