Stories by Dan Dalgety

Beekeeping is being hailed as the country's new goldrush - so much so that the industry is now on the skills shortage list. Audio

The fire, at the Ravensdown factory in the busy Christchurch suburb of Hornby also caused traffic chaos, as police cordoned off several roads to create a perimeter around the 14-hectare factory site.

Fires ripped through nearly 2000 hectares of trees and farmland in Christchurch's Port Hills last year, undoing years of hard toil put in by tree planting volunteers. An ambitious plan to replant them… Video, Audio