New Zealand is one of the most common places for beachings and pilot whales are especially prone to becoming stranded. A team was monitoring Ruakaka Beach near the city of Whangarei in New Zealand ...

The Whangārei District Council has lost its court bid to stop adding fluoride to the city’s water. The High Court rejected the council’s request for an injunction, with Justice Karen Grau saying it ...

The meeting agenda, by council chief executive Simon Weston, states that the Ministry of Health's deadline for starting fluoridation is 28 March. But to meet that deadline - because of the time needed ...

It comes after the High Court reserved its decision on a the first of the council's legal challenges against Health Ministry ...

Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo inside the Whau Valley water treatment plant that supplies the city's drinking water ... so at Tuesday’s meeting. New Zealand’s Local Government Act, which ...