Huge burning glow in the sky at uncontrolled fire near Aoraki/Mt Cook
Efforts continue to contain massive blaze alongside Lake Pukaki.
Efforts continue to contain massive blaze alongside Lake Pukaki.
Residents of Southland town living with constant threat of toxic waste.
Fourteen helicopters, two fixed-wing aeroplanes, and 10 appliances are on the ground.
Research and development firm Kāriki Pharma and grower Puro New Zealand join forces.
Rain will hit the country from Tuesday and see out the week.
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Daniel Shand is asking for people's votes, saying he'd 'probably make a pretty good MP'.
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One part of the country has received 82mm of rain in the last 24 hours.
Regions reliant on tourism will bear brunt of sluggish recovery from Covid lockdown.
Middlemarch has registered New Zealand's coldest June temperature since 2015.
Fire and Emergency say the clouds of smoke are coming from a controlled burn.
For years, South Islanders have claimed there's a big cat roaming the countryside.
Fire contained but not extinguished; people are being warned to stay away.
'It's just a bloody pigeon,' shooter's mother says. 'I don't care what you call it.'
The investors were forced to sell the properties or risk potential prosecution.
There could even be a naked shearing record attempt.
"Everyone feels so helpless at the moment being in lockdown, in isolation."
Authorities are busy tracking close contacts linked to the World Hereford Conference.
Conference "was under way before enormity of what we've got on our plate became apparent."
A Dunedin man reported himself to police after his ram-raiding.
Relatively little was paid to farmers for damaged peas, sweet corn, potatoes, wheat crops.
Southland Charity Hospital now has a home after being given a tavern.
Civil defence authorities have sandbags ready in parts of the Mataura River catchment.
Police called to the scene in Graham Valley Road, Motueka Valley, about 8.15am.
As water levels drop and evacuated families return to their homes, reality kicks in.
Total costs for the clean up following the floods are expected to run into millions.