Three climbers are missing after failing to return from a planned ascent of New Zealand's highest peak, authorities say.

To try to prevent the further spread of the virus, around 80,000 layer hens across two sheds will be humanely culled using ...

A family member of two workers at the Mainland Poultry free-range farm at the centre of New Zealand’s first confirmed case of ...

An Australian egg producer hit by bird flu warns NZ farmers it's likely to take months to get birds back on the farm and ...

The number of chickens needing to be culled on an Otago farm has doubled to 80,000 after New Zealand's first case of case of ...

Warm air from Australia is pushing New Zealand’s temperatures into the 30s as summer starts heating up. MetService is ...

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A section of a major highway in Hawke’s Bay has been forced closed following a serious two-vehicle crash. Emergency services ...

The cull of 80,000 chickens on an Otago egg farm starts tomorrow after bird flu has been found in a second shed on the property MPI said it will take two to three days to euthanise the chickens using ...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand has placed strict movement controls on a commercial egg farm in the southern region of Otago after ...

The Animal Justice Party (AJP) is extremely concerned by the mass cull following New Zealand’s first confirmed outbreak of bird flu at an Otago egg farm. The devastating outbreak exposes the brutal ...

A highly pathogenic H7N6 bird flu has been detected in New Zealand for the first time, putting the country’s poultry industry ...