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Hands holding freshly harvested delishious green-lipped mussels (known as greenshell mussel or kuku) at Marlborough Sounds, South Island of New Zealand
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Ocean Shell Ltd owner Nina Shields would like community groups to be able to collect and sell naturally beached pāua shells.
The underwater pilot study of the mussels
A kāruhiruhi pied shag parent feeds its chick in the nest.
Illustration of Escherichia coli bacteria. E. coli is a rod shaped bacterium, commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. Certain strains can cause food-poisoning in humans. (Photo by THOM LEACH / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA / TLE / Science Photo Library via AFP)
A mussel farm. The aquaculture industry is hoping to develop offshore marine farms.
Untreated water is leaking onto the capital’s south coast beaches due to the Moa Point Treatment Plant flooding and being turned off from early this morning.
Stylised illustration of rising flood waters threatening homes and roads
27 October 2025, Brandenburg, Neutrebbin: A wheel loader loads dead poultry into a container. Due to the highly contagious H5N1 virus (bird flu), the animals at a Fairmast farm had to be killed. Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa (Photo by Christophe Gateau / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)
Dolphins frolicking in the Bay of Islands.
Will Jordan is all smiles after becoming the All Blacks all-time leading try scorer.
Musicians Ngoi Pēwhairangi and Dalvanius Prime co-wrote ‘Poi E’ by the Pātea Māori Club.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the “Secure America Act” in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2026. The bill provides around $38 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), $26 billion for Border Patrol and another $5 billion for unforeseen costs, effectively ensuring a steady flow of money for Trump’s deportation agenda through fiscal 2029.
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 11: Bilateral Meeting with Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Government House on July 11, 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. Prime Minister Modi is making his first official visit to Auckland after the signing of a free trade agreement with New Zealand. Herald photograph by Dean Purcell