A year ago, Typhoon Haiyan created a series of storm surges that left several thousand people dead and around four million homeless.

Hundreds of children attending a church camp in San Bernardino are among thousands of people trapped.

One of the men killed in a pawn shop in south Auckland on Saturday had recently returned from helping flood victims in Northland, a witness says.

The Civil Defence has warned Northland to prepare for further flooding as heavy rain and gale force winds lash the region again this weekend.

The 7-year-old son of the woman who died in a flood-swollen Northland river is living with his great-grandparents, as he comes to terms with losing his mum.

Auckland lines company Vector says it is still assessing the financial cost of last week's storm.

A woman who was swept to her death in a flood-swollen Bay of Islands river was a 28-year-old mother from Wellington.

Elderly dementia patients have been evacuated from their Canterbury rest home after it was flooded overnight in a torrential rainstorm.

Residents in the South Island have woken up to flooding in the region, with a warning the worst is yet to come for Auckland today.

Floodwaters triggered more than 2,000 landslides across much of the Balkans on Sunday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines left over from the region’s 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded devices.

Scientists have issued a new warning to the world’s coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming.

A woman has described her dramatic escape from her submerged car after it was swept off the road by raging floodwaters.

Wild weather continues to hit the country, flooding areas of Blenheim as remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Ita pass through the South Island.

Another strong aftershock has rattled Solomon Islands early this morning, following yesterday's 7.6 quake that's compounded flood misery in the country.

NZ is sending a Hercules with emergency relief to the Solomon Islands, after thousands of people in and around the capital Honiara were left homeless by flash flooding.

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

A downpour in Auckland caused some surface flooding in the city centre, causing surface flooding and road closures after the storm.

Heavy rain has flooded houses in Auckland and Waikato and blocked a road tonight.

PM John Key has today seen firsthand the damage wrought by the bad weather that has hammered Christchurch, telling flooded business owners to "hang in there".

'We're obviously going to review the sandbagging issue,' says Christchurch's mayor amid residents' complaints the council failed to handle yesterday's floods.

Clarendon Terrace resident Nicholas Wilson shows us his flooded street and Hamish Wright from Construction Contracting Limited discusses protecting homes in the community from further flooding.

Flood waters take over Christchurch suburbs.

Mick Dummer got a nasty shock when he arrived at work.