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People are urged to stay well away from flooded roads with water levels remaining high.

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It came, it was wild, and then it was over. Cyclone Cook has now passed New Zealand.

The Whakatane District Council has provided a full update on the area after Cyclone Cook.

Cyclone Cook has been one gnarly Easter egg for surfers, offering nine-foot waves today.

Only one major route now open on peninsula.

Aucklanders were left wondering if the big storm was a fizzer but others felt its force.

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Here are the latest weather updates, region by region as Cyclone Cook bears down.

She says she rang to say the bank wasn't going to hold (made with funding from NZ On Air).

Time to get out your gumboots and umbrellas with wet weather on the way.

The flooding in Bay of Plenty has bee classified as "medium-scale adverse event".

With only minutes to evacuate, Ryan Topperwien tried to secure his most precious items.

As the rest of Auckland moves on from Cyclone Debbie, houses in Kawakawa Bay struggle.

Some Eastern Bay of Plenty residents will be given brief access to their homes today.

A breach in a stopbank of the Rangitaiki River was closed at 11pm last night.

But motel owners are worried where evacuees will go once their Easter bookings arrive

Flooding, evacuations and complete chaos - tropical storm Debbie brought it all to NZ.