As much as Christchurch will alter as climate changes, it will remain a lucky place because it will still have liveable ...

Picture this: it's 2030, in the seaside suburb of Sumner in Otautahi Christchurch. That's only five years' time, but the sea is already to quote novelist and science writer Jane Shearer, tearing off ...

February 22 saw a big scientific breakthrough with the successful cloning of a mammal for the first time in 1997. Dolly was ...

so flooding of roads and low lying land is still possible. Areas most at risk include tributaries between Ringwood and Christchurch. Rainfall is forecast for the next few days but low totals are ...

A vision of Ngāi Tahu rangatiratanga, and managing Canterbury’s largest lake, Te Waihora, is outlined in court ...

It's been a long road and now construction of Ashburton's long-awaited bridge isn't far off. But calls for a bypass persist.

It’s 8.30am on a Wednesday and I’m with 60 people, crowded into a room in the Auckland City Mission’s HomeGround building, ...

Ashburton’s second bridge has been 15 years in the making. Initially planned to ease increasing traffic volumes, the 2021 Canterbury floods highlighted its critical role for Ashburton and the South ...

Local leaders want the township of Kumeū in northwest Auckland relocated after a council report found no viable solution to the town’s long history of flooding. “There is no cavalry coming to ...

The storm killed at least 14 people – one in severe winds in Georgia, one in West Virginia and 12 in Kentucky, which took on some of the worst of the devastating flooding in the region.