Thursday, April 24, 2025

Environment

Thunderstorm keeps emergency services busy

An intense thunderstorm and rain event has kept residents, emergency responders and council teams busy through the night. Daylight has confirmed surface flooding across...

Wet and wild week ahead

The upper North Island, including Auckland and Waikato, is in for a very wet and windy few days heading into the Easter holiday break. Auckland...

Monarch butterflies proving elusive

Have you noticed fewer monarch butterflies around this year? Helena O’Neill chats with Jacqui Knight, secretary and founding trustee at Moths and Butterflies of NZ...

Finding Franklin’s bats

The native long-tailed bat, or Chalinolobus tuberculatus, is one of New Zealand’s rarest and most vulnerable creatures, yet it seems to have settled in...