State owned coal company Solid Energy says its plan to build a lignite-to-urea plant in Southland can be viable, even at the upper end of carbon pricing.

Many chefs are turning to diver-caught scallops as a sustainable alternative to dredging.

When 5-year-old Max Christie slipped out of sight 90 metres down a rocky Whakapapa cliff his parents feared they wouldn't find him alive.

There are claims a mentally ill man who died of a bacterial infection did not receive adequate support from his carers.