New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.

Damaging wind gusts and heavy rain will continue to affect some parts of the North Island and brushing Marlborough ...

Wind is easy to overlook until it becomes impossible to ignore. Most of the time, it arrives as a background presence, rustling leaves, pushing clouds across the sky or bringing relief on a hot day.