In 2024, news broke about the successful reintroduction of the takahē, a beautiful prehistoric bird, back into the wild.

From cliff-scaling skinks to takahē on tramping tracks, species around the motu have hit milestones of all kinds in the past ...

Tūmai Cassidy from Ngāi Tahu, the principal Māori tribe of the South Island, says that “They’re almost prehistoric looking. Seen from the front, their bodies can seem almost perfectly round. With ...

In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter showed up at a Habitat for Humanity site in Nashville with a smile — and a black eye. One day earlier, Carter, then 95, had fallen and needed 14 stitches ...

Best literature of 2024: Sign advising against anyone wanting to cause TROUPLE, outside a house in Mt Wellington, Auckland. Photo by Steve Braunias And so 2024 in New Zealand literature will be ...

International Writers’ Workshop NZ is delighted to announce that Ōtepoti Dunedin poets Nicola Thorstensen and Michelle Elvy are the 2024 winner and runner-up of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a ...

Two flightless takahe were released at a New Zealand sanctuary in the latest effort to stop some of the world's rarest birds becoming extinct. The pair, Waitaa and Bendigo, sprinted out of their ...