Leighton Smith Podcast: White Island and the British election
This week Leighton also talks about why it's nonsense not to be tough on crime.
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Fundraisers set up to help families, victims of Whakaari/White Island
Two people from Coffs Harbour are still missing while their friend is badly hurt.
Why were tourists allowed to visit White Island?
Visiting an active volcano involves risk.
Focus Live: First responder details dramatic scenes when victims arrived
Focus Live: Chief fire officer for the Whakatane Volunteer Fire Brigade, Ken Clark, tells of dramatic rescue efforts as the victims arrived on shore after the eruption. Video / Will Trafford / Alan Gibson
Focus: Whakaari / White Island Eruption
PM Jacinda Ardern meets with the first responders and a police investigation is launched. Video / Pool / Alan Gibson / Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust / White Island Flights
'Our duty is to return loved ones' - PM
The NZ Defence Force is due to approach White Island at first light today.
White Island eruption: One of New Zealand's deadliest disasters
Monday's eruption ranks alongside some of the biggest disasters in NZ history.
A survivor's tale: Victims 'likely to be injured by debris and hot rocks'
Volcanic eruption survivor recalls 2007 ordeal: "It was a horrific situation to be in."
White Island erupts: Disaster dominates international headlines
The eruption has made major headlines around the world
White Island erupts: Five dead and the toll expected to rise
Latest from the White Island explosion.
Focus Live: One confirmed dead in White Island eruption as police say 'there will likely be more' fatalities
Focus Live: One confirmed dead in White Island eruption as police say 'there will likely be more' fatalities.
Focus: White Island volcanic eruption
Focus: White Island erupts. Video / Alan Gibson / George Novak / Mark Mitchell / @allessandrokauffmann / @alismoura / @sch
Focus Live: Critical injuries reported on Whakaari / White Island
Focus Live: Critical injuries reported on Whakaari / White Island
Focus Live Earlier: Volcanic eruption on Whakaari / White Island
Focus Live Earlier: Volcanic eruption on Whakaari / White Island.
100 people on Whakaari/White Island when it erupted
Up to 100 people could have been near or on White Island when it erupted.
Watch: PM speaks on White Island eruption
"All our thoughts are with those affected at this stage," PM said.
Powerful earthquake in Albania kills 21
The 6.4 magnitude quake was felt across the southern Balkans early Tuesday.
Emergency alert test: Why your phone went off loudly tonight
National test of civil defence alert hit phones across New Zealand this evening.
Middlemarch fire now under control
Middlemarch fire now under control. Video / ODT / Tom Neunzerling
No amount of planning can prepare NZ for a disaster
Disaster officials have warned the effects will be felt far and wide.
A shallow 5.4 magnitude earthquake has struck 30km east of Wairoa
A shallow 5.4 magnitude earthquake has struck 30km east of Wairoa.
Swept away: Ten years after tsunami took their daughters
A decade has past since sisters Rebecca and Petria Martin died in the Samoan tsunami.
Focus: GNS volcanologist Brad Scott on the current state of activity on White Island
Focus: GNS volcanologist Brad Scott on the current state of activity on White Island. Video / Alan Gibson
Vertical evacuation: How low-lying communities can ride out tsunamis
Vertical evacuation buildings considered to help people in Napier survive tsunamis.
Reunion to remember NZ rescue efforts in Taiwan quake 20 years ago
Official recognition ceremony will be held at Auckland Town Hall on October 4.
Typhoon leaves thousands of South Korean homes powerless
Typhoon Lingling is expected to affect most of South Korea before hitting North Korea.
Magnitude 5.2 earthquake reported near Turangi
GeoNet recorded the moderate earthquake just after 7pm this evening.
Potentially disastrous hurricane upgraded to category 4
The forecast for Dorian continues to be ominous and serious, particularly in Florida.
Watch: Controlled avalanche's 'destructive force' on Mt Ruapehu
Aerial footage of the massive sea of moving snow that closed Tūroa ski field on Thursday.
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin. Video / Matai Newman / Sam Crosson
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin
A large vegetation fire near Flagstaff, Dunedin. Video / Matai Newman / Sam Crosson
World's biggest supervolcano 'acting erratically'
Experts are baffled by shifting patterns of geyser eruptions in Yellowstone National Park.
'People were sobbing': Kiwi family's terror as quake hits
The Fair family were in an LA bar 70 floors up when the 7.1 quake "violently" struck.