Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls for an urgent scale-up of nature-positive spending.

Heavy rains have ravaged the country's North Island, with a minister comparing it to a "war zone".

AN eight-week life drawing program will begin at Kingston Arts Centre next month. The program is run by artist Belinda Wilson, who says “life drawing is a powerful way to develop artistic skills and ...