Large electricity users with national operations are losing patience with local electricity line network owners' slow progress towards having common terms and conditions.

The Auckland Volcanic Field will "almost certainly" erupt again, and a swarm of earthquakes will be the first signal of a catastrophe, say scientists.

More than 700 Auckland residents are without power this evening due to an outage.

Some 50,000 Slingshot customers will be offered power to go along with their broadband this month as the company branches into new

Parts of the South Island have been hit by a major power cut.

Cheap oil and a wet spring kept wholesale prices low, offsetting better retail margins.

A solar powered electric vehicle charger is opened to the public in Tauranga and will provide free charging for the next year.

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Businesses in a small Northland town lost tens of thousands of dollars in revenue after a power cut lasted up to 54 hours.

A tree has fallen and power lines are down on Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd, leaving the road blocked in both directions.

Power has been restored to hundreds of households across Auckland after wild weather wreaked havoc at the weekend.

Vector's making progress getting power back on to the remaining Auckland homes left in the dark since the weekend's stormy weather.

Power remains out in pockets across Auckland, from Orere Point in the east to Papakura in the south, according to Vector's website.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges has bought two electric cars, and is trying to convince other National MPs to do the same.

Half of Delta's executive leadership team has jumped ship as fallout from the pole scandal continues to rock the Dunedin company.

The Commerce Commission has cut the rate of return that local electricity lines networks and national grid owner Transpower can charge in its latest decisions on monopoly network pricing.

Final repairs were made this morning to high voltage lines which were brought down when a light plane crashed, killing the two people on board.

It will be a dark and quiet night for some people in Manurewa, after a crash toppled a power pole and cut power.

More than 40,000 Gisborne residents have been asked to prepare for eight hours without power again this Sunday.

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Power has been fully restored to more than 20,000 homes and businesses in Gisborne tonight, after a 33-hour outage.

As the bulk of the Gisborne district remains without power after plane crashed into high voltage lines, the residents of the region are mucking in.

The Electricity Authority is softening its proposed reforms for national grid payments, but power prices would still rise for some regions.

Investigators will begin combing through the wreckage of a plane crash that killed two people and cut power to 20,000 homes in the Gisborne region.

Billing disputes are the main issue for utility customers but the number of those complaining about disconnections is growing.

A car has hit a power pole and broken it in two in South Auckland this morning.

There are calls to make the Far North self-sufficient for power, after the whole region blacked out for 12 hours yesterday.

A decision on whether the Department of Conservation will allow the Waitaha River power scheme will be made by mid-2017.

Over 32,000 Far North homes and businesses were without power for most of yesterday, and police are investigating whether the outage was sabotage.

Power has been restored to the Far North after a major outage earlier today.