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Smoke alarms in huts: Conservation Dept explains tech and safety imperatives

Backcountry huts to meet the same regulations as city buildings, reports David Williams

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'Financial bottomless pit': Smoke alarms for hundreds of DoC huts

An exemption allowing back country huts not to have smoke alarms has ended

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Prison accused of putting people in solitary confinement based on secret evidence

‘This is torture in its highest form, and it must end now,’ said one inmate

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Ministers agree loan to private investors to save Ruapehu ski field

There's concern at a Cabinet decision, in the shadow of election, to increase its lending to $50m and set up ski field for private ownership. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Washington State Prison System Sued for Using Unreliable Drug Tests To Put Inmates in Solitary

Reason reported in 2021 how prisons use cheap field kits to test mail for contraband—and use the faulty, unconfirmed results to severely punish inmates.

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The Sure Things: Lan Pham goes from hermit life to public life

The former environmental councillor seizes the day, including being catapulted into this “crazy political thing” for the Green Party

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Shadow cast over feral cats

Feral cats that dine out daily on native species including long-tailed bats, kea and rare giant skinks are now threatening to add treasured takahē to the menu.

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‘Rich’ Conservation Department is actually stretched and struggling

Severe cuts could accelerate department's decline, writes David Williams.

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Quarry highlights failings for Māori and the environment

The quarry at Te Weraiti has disfigured an ancestral mountain and been detrimental to natural features of high significance, write Te Ao o te Rangi Apaapa and Reto Blattner de-Vries

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Is bottomless prosecco going to be killed off by climate change?

Climate change is threatening prosecco vineyards in Northern Italy. Hannah Twiggs explores what this means for bottomless brunchers, al fresco drinkers and the future of sparkling wines

The Independent UK

Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild

Return of takahē – large, flightless bird – to alpine slopes of the South Island marks a conservation victory in New Zealand

The Guardian - AU

Jatuporn wants CCTV footage of 'sick' Thaksin

Political activist Jatuporn Prompan has demanded the Department of Corrections (DoC) and the Police General Hospital release CCTV footage to prove that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is really ill.

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Popular Fiordland hostel closed by slip

Fears that access could be cut to the remote facility used by schools for 50 years have led to its closure for overnight stays.

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Best supermarket Prosecco 2025 taste test: Top bottles to pop

Top bottles to add to your weekly shop

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Renewed calls to undam hydro plan

A power company with mana whenua backing is hoping to revive a West Coast hydro scheme already turned down by the Government.

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Lack of data foils SailGP probe

A Conservation investigation crumbled when SailGP didn’t provide data. David Williams reports.

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Miners feel put upon by biodiversity rules

The mining industry claims Government efforts to tackle climate change unfairly use a conservation approach to stifle miners’ activities.

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Inside DoC’s SailGP investigation

Newly-released correspondence details what SailGP’s race controller was told, and when.

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The National (Scotland)

Mass rat extermination could harm Scotland's ecosystem, experts warn

RATS have been “our best worst friends for the past 10,000 years” – but as the pest problem continues to hit headlines, experts are cautioning…

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Coast goldminers crank out the currency as DoC mulls land status

Decades after his father began mining for gold on land near Lake Brunner on the West Coast, Riley Perkins continues to make a go of it.

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WA DOC workers say they were wrongfully excluded from $1K pandemic bonuses

OLYMPIA — Most state workers can expect a $1,000 bonus in July for staying on at their jobs, but one group of workers at the Department of Corrections says they have been wrongfully excluded from getting it.

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Ruapehu sale: Conservation concessions sign-off is the great unknown

Despite liquidation proceedings, Ruapehu Alpine Lifts will probably be sold as planned.

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Cloud hangs over SailGP race

International sailing race in danger of losing local hapū’s support

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Ruapehu bidder backs out before big vote

Turoa Alpine is supporting the Ruapehu Stakeholders Association bid in lieu of making its own.

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Accident shows DoC risking another Cave Creek

A tramper who fell 16m from a Department of Conservation swing bridge was a victim of mismanagement a former ranger claims.

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