A BUSH fire at Waiohine Gorge on Monday is a bad omen for summer, Wairarapa principal rural fire officer Phil Wishnowsky said yesterday, in a year of low rainfall where the Fire Service did not have an off-season. An estimated 2ha of corsica pine was destroyed by a fire which began in scrub on Department […]

Rescuers have successfully responded to two emergency radio beacon alerts less than 24 hours apart, with the latest response resulting in the speedy rescue of a tramper in the Tararua ranges today. Just as Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) staff were wrapping up a successful search for the source of an emergency radio beacon […]