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Settlers Day organisers pull the plug on planned event
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Civil Defence warning: Rising floodwaters trap residents in West Auckland, NZDF called in
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Rain is battering Auckland and the top of the North Island.
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'Settlers Day' organisers to hui with Ngāti Kauwhata over Waitangi Day event
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Let’s choose our water future before climate change chooses for us
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Fresh tropical cyclone tracking north of New Zealand
The storm will likely soon become a tropical cyclone and will be named this evening
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Focus: Summer of cyclones hitting NZ
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Local state of emergency declared as major river nears breach levels
Civil Defence warning ex-cyclone is “potentially one of the worst ones they have seen”.
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