When I first heard about Elemental – Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa’s new adults-only wellness experience featuring New Zealand’s first snow room – I was not sold on the idea. It didn’t sound relaxing. Stepping into falling snow in...
Seven years after declaring a climate emergency, Nelson City Council is under fire over plans to dismantle its climate change team. Critics feared adaptation work would be shelved, expertise lost and mitigation hindered under the...
Tasman District farmer David Watts is among many rural landowners who wish they had enough time and money to carry out native reforestation, wetland restoration and planting along riverbanks on their land.
Ben Brown has wandered through life. The Motueka-born rock’n’roll poet has lived in a Buddhist temple in Christchurch’s Merivale and travelled in a car across the country with his young family, trying to sell his and his former wife’s...
Across 1 Light pastry (5) 4 Supporter (6) 8 Writing point (3) 9 Spaceman (9) 10 Without a will (9) 12 Flightless bird (3) 13 Fish; evasive person (3) 14 Police trainee, e.g. (5) 15 Residue from burning (3) 16 In the past (3) 18...
