A youth killed in a landslide near Whakatane on Saturday was looking forward to becoming father in September.

A tornado, floods and king tides wreaked havoc across the country yesterday.

The foster father of a teenager killed in yesterday's Ohope landslip tried desperately to save him.

A woman was killed and six men left with injuries similar to those sustained by "landmine" victims while inspecting work on a water pipe in Auckland's Onehunga yesterday.

An 11-year-old boy impaled at an Auckland school this morning asked his rescuers not to amputate his leg as they cut him off a school fence. He slipped while climbing the fence but is unlikely to suffer permanent damage.