Wellington residents are today dealing with the damage caused by heavy rain.

Residents are bracing for more rain. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

They've cleared the lower floors of their clubrooms. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Chaos as Cyclone Debbie's tail hammers NZ with heavy rain.

NSW police find three bodies after search in flood-swollen Australian waterway.

Remote school sent children home because roads were expected to be flooded.

A school is being evacuated and flooding is hitting lots of areas in in the North Island.

100 years of the route through the Paraparas. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Death toll rises and three people missing after NSW and Queensland floods.

At least two people have died and around 20,000 have been ordered to leave their homes.

Body of woman was found in NSW, authorities say many more people are missing.

The last thing David Clarke told his wife was "I'm not going to win".

Ramarama man Cameron Vernon has been busy helping those caught in heavy flooding.

Heavy storms, rainwater run-off and low-lying land pose a flood risk to about 16,000 properties in the Auckland region.

An Auckland family's home has flooded up to 12 times in seven years despite it being a no flood risk area according to council plans.

The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.

Investigation into failed New Lynn culvert and the treatment plant struggling to filter dirty flood waters.

It's been a shocker of a few days, MP David Cunliffe says in the flood's aftermath.

Auckland residents have begun cleaning up drenched homes and filing insurance claims after a massive storm saturated the region.

About 35 people have been evacuated from a block of flats and a commercial building in New Lynn.

A Kiwi scientist meeting in Brazil with world climate experts discusses a new report assessing what an extra 1.5C of warming would mean for the planet.

Rainfall levels 'off the charts' as upper North Island prepares for a second big drenching this week.

NZ Herald Focus reporter Tristram Clayton with an update on flooding in Coromandel.

Dozens of cows and sheep have been swept away in flood waters.

What's next for our rain-sodden regions?

Weather watches or warning are in place for most of the upper North Island as more rain is forecast over the week.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Kawerau District Council staff are working as fast as they can to unblock drains after torrential rain caused flooding of over a metre.

Engineers in Northern California are frantically trying to repair "patch and pray" quick-fixes which led to the Oroville Dam's near collapse.

"They told us not to worry. All was good," said Ron Stork.