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A new research paper suggests a long-standing campaign to suppress evidence about the health impacts of dioxin emissions from the production of the herbicide 2,4,5-T in New Plymouth during the 1960s.

Never-before-seen documents show a senior government official feared children could die if they came into contact with toxic chemicals that were pouring directly onto a popular New Plymouth beach.

Around 17,000 tons of aggregate is being imported for road-based projects at Port Panama City.

Anglers have luck landing whiting around Port Lincoln.

Where the plaintiff, an unincorporated association of individuals who reside along or near a public beach, filed a complaint alleging that the defendant town committed a class-of-one equal protection violation by failing to adequately enforce various local rules against scuba divers at that beach, a U.S. District Court judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s equal protection claim

First Circuit Court of Appeals have affirmed the Federal District Court's dismissal of claims by neighbors of Back Beach in Rockport. The NIMBYs sued the Town of Rockport over its failure to prevent scuba divers from using public parking spaces.

Tuna and samson fish are still plentiful in the right places.

Already this summer, we've lost 26 people to drowning according to the Royal Life Saving Summer Drowning toll and the stories are harrowing.

Lifesavers have pleaded for people to wear flotation devices when trying to save others from waterways after two ...

A Sydney man has died after trying to save his daughter caught in a rip at a beach on the New South Wales ...