Walk down the bread aisle at the supermarket and you'll see a lot of brands that are etched in our minds as quintessentially Kiwi.

Software upgrades and crew training are under way as Dunedin's new dredge prepares to begin its work. Takutai, Port Otago's $8million backhoe dredge, was in the harbour channel yesterday as it was prepared for work expected to begin next month.

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Russia's social media campaign was part of a broad cyber offensive that US intelligence agencies say was aimed at helping Donald Trump win the White House.

Novelty and health benefits play a major role in influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions and are often controlled in the plant by a family of proteins called MYBs. Understanding how these work could result in new fruits and vegetables on the supermarket shelves.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable has begun commercial operations for its 15,000 km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the United States

Talented students from Victoria University of Wellington are ready to swap the beach for the boardroom this summer while they brainstorm, problem solve and offer creative solutions to a host of businesses and organisations as part of the University’s Summer Research Scholarships programme.

Dr Mike Nichols, a retired vegetable specialist who spent 40 years teaching at Massey University, has been experimenting with winter strawberries. He has now announced an 18-month experiment of growing and harvesting strawberries year-round has been successful.

Deferred work, staff pushed beyond capacity and desperate pleas for more staff – internal emails reveal the extent of pressure on the national veterinary laboratory brought on by Mycoplasma bovis. David Williams reports for Newsroom.

New Zealand Refining has been granted resource consent to dredge Whangarei Harbour by the Northland Regional Council, something it says will let larger crude cargoes of around 1 million barrels to be shipped to Marsden Point.