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27-hour rainmaker: Slip closes highway, heavy downfall warnings for north
Rain descends on the North Island just in time for the school holidays.
Rain descends on the North Island just in time for the school holidays.
Joey Richards will go on trial for murder in May next year.
Rainfall of up to 40mm an hour is forecast in Northland this evening.
Southwest winds are bringing severe gales to parts of the North and South Islands.
Wild weather has hit the country.
"It's not just the physical damage and costs but the impact on their emotional wellbeing."
Four people were flown to hospital following the incident.
Maggie Wilkinson has received an historic settlement and in-person apology.
Heavy rain warnings and watches are in place for the upper North Island.
A 43-year-old man is dead and another man is in a critical condition in hospital.
He was found dead on a rural property in Manaia.
Parts of the Coromandel will be without power until 1pm.
Most of the power should be restored to the remaining homes today.
The teen's mother and a teacher were just metres away when he was stabbed by a student.
Adding to the humidity, intense rain is forecast for east from Hawke's Bay to Coromandel.
A whale is stranded at Te Kouma beach near Coromandel Town.
Emergency services called to Waihī and Hahei this afternoon.
Police say by and large, New Zealanders rang in 2022 safely.
Low-pressure system headed for NZ brings risk of heavy rainfall and flooding next week.
The closure follows a request from the Ngāti Hei Trust.
Some residents in Aucklands North Shore are without power.
Relief as it appears no one in the Coromandel has caught Covid, despite initial visit.
Preferable contact tracers speak a Pacific language, large proportion of cases now Samoan.
The Coromandel community is cautiously optimistic as they await day-12 test results.
The original case of the new outbreak visited the Coromandel last weekend.
Inside the perfect weekend getaway that brought Covid-19 to a small town.
Message to communities was 'police have got this'.
Among the new places of interest are SkyCity's Auckland central casino, AUT and a church.
Coromandel residents are anxiously waiting for test results to come back.
The road block was no longer in place at Manaia about 1pm today.