New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, forms the cornerstone of the country’s longest cycle trail. Starting from the Southern Alps, this 260-kilometre trail descends 540 metres through the ...

The proposed changes close off that option, meaning any student wanting to go to university would be taking a risk in adding ...

Tall, dark and lonely, formed from a mountain peak drowned by the sea, D’Urville Island is a rugged sentinel between Nelson’s Tasman Bay and the gentle filigree of the Marlborough Sounds. Māori called ...

In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the Year, each a compelling reflection of who we are as a people and the environment we live in. Peking Duk, an electronica act from Canberra, perform ...

These lustrous pieces of agate were found on Rangiatea Station in Canterbury, home to Sara and Bill Gallagher. The farm is rich in agates, and the couple use some of it to run a small jewellery ...

But tapping the riches underground would itself be expensive. Quartz reef mining requires a stamp battery, which in the 19th century meant a water-powered machine that crushed rock to powder with ...

Kim Logan had the sort of childhood where he was so hungry he’d sneak dog biscuits at night. Once, after accidentally starting a fire in their treehouse, he and his brother hid under the family home ...

An Auckland Zoo programme is saving the Hauturu-o-toi/Little Barrier Island wētāpunga. When people talk about their gateway drugs at university, you don’t normally expect the answer to be the Poor ...

From fossils to boulders, heritage precincts to glacial moraines, the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark rocks. Situated on the east coast of the South Island and straddling the line of the 45th parallel ...

How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a debilitating disease. Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, ...

In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really good map.

A new assessment of Aotearoa’s mosses shows about a third of our 560-odd species are classified as at risk or threatened, with 16 deemed “nationally critical”. One of the most precarious is Lindbergia ...