A man successfully sues a farmer for more than $5000 after his car was written off when it hit a calf.

An American tourist dies during a Dolphin Watch EcoTours trip in the Marlborough Sounds this morning.

It 'burrows like a badger, kicks like a kangaroo and smells like a forest mushroom' but New Zealanders say it's their favourite.

A woman was thrown out of a meeting on the North Shore's beach poisonings when she hurled objects at a Department of Conservation speaker.

"Significant animal welfare issues" have been found among the 20,000 cows on the 22 farms owned by the Crafar family, a MAF inquiry says.

A dog which died after visiting a Coromandel beach tests positive to the same toxin thought to have killed five dogs in Auckland.