Twelve Polk County students were among the more than 162 graduating high school seniors who graduated June 7 from Willamette ...

Deane Keir heard yelling and drove half a kilometre to find a truck driver in the Buller Gorge clinging to a branch. His truck had plunged down a bank and into a river. Audio ...

Hundreds of dead rats have washed up on the West Coast, prompting a community-led cleanup and warnings from the Department of Conservation (DOC). It is understood the rats had been washed out of ...

Visitors gather on a pontoon floating on Lake Rotoiti. There are concerns an algae that causes a slime known as lake snow or lake snot may be present there.BRADEN ...

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States.

In Buller's case the required work would include separating sewage from stormwater flowing into the Buller River in heavy rain, and upgrading water storage and home filter systems for small rural ...

Are you a passenger who snoozes while driving to your destination? If you answered yes – you just might be missing out on some interesting aspects. Reaching your journey's end is usually ...

Buller’s Regional Council rep Chris Coll has asked for Westport’s Orowaiti River to be added to a list of river mouths that can be opened up at short notice when floods are looming. The ...

While on the river, biologists came across the 14-pound female walleye. The DWR noted that walleye of that size are rare and uncommon to find in Southwest Virginia.

Three of the newer monitoring sites were funded by the government through the Resilient Westport project: one on the State Highway 67 bridge over the Buller River; one on the Orowaiti River bridge ...