The Cook Islands declared a dengue outbreak in Rarotonga last week. Other Pacific nations including Sāmoa, Tonga, and Fiji ...

The new national Science Curriculum is expected to become available later this year, after a rewrite was paused in 2024. The ...

A teenager has died after suffering a head injury while playing a private "run it straight-style" tackle game in Palmerston ...

The third UN Ocean Conference in France next month will focus on the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. ...

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NZ Food Safety has proposed changing the residue limits allowed in food for several agricultural compounds. The proposed amendments change or set maximum residue levels in food sold in NZ for 14 ...

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The government is investigating a ban on those under 16 using social media. The draft bill is modelled on Australian laws […] ...

The government has announced the largest reforms to NZ’s science sector in over three decades. The seven Crown Research Institutes will be replaced by three Public Research Organisations (PROs) ...

Human-induced climate change is already affecting weather and climate extremes across the globe, according to the latest report from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...