Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavy rain left parts of New Zealand’s North Island inundated on Sunday, April 12, as Cyclone Vaianu made landfall. According to ...

New Zealand could face twice as many of the most extreme atmospheric rivers by the end of the century, according to new research by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). It ...

Splashing around in a New Zealand river? This map shows your risk of coming down with campylobacteriosis, a gastro illness ...

In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. Five years after the law was passed, The Associated Press followed the 290-kilometer (180-mile) ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris ...