
Strong winds: Auckland Harbour Bridge motorists urged to take care
A wind warning has been in place for Auckland overnight.
A wind warning has been in place for Auckland overnight.
"After living there for 56 years, my whole life, it certainly isn't a ghost town."
And don't forget to rug up for the rugby in Auckland tonight.
Thunder and gales forecast, "pretty much everyone is getting rain" and there's snow, too.
Thunderstorms will light up North Island skies across the day before a wild weekend.
'There's quite a cold air mass in circulation,' Metservice says.
Snow could fall to 100-200m in Otago and Southland and 300-400m in the North Island.
Man taken to hospital in stable condition.
Man due to appear in Wellington District Court tomorrow.
Hitch connects commuters heading the same way at the same time.
MPI wants to increase catch by as much as 133 per cent following rejuvenated stock levels.
'It all happened quite quickly'
The fire started just after 4am on Friday morning.
In the base where the rowers learned their skills, supporters gathered to cheer them on.
A person has been arrested and charged.
Sweet result causes buzz in Te Urewera.
Flood-stricken Buller district is in the firing line again.
Fine weather expected before possible heavy rain and floods for parts of NZ.
Driver suffers minor injuries after his truck hits a railway overbridge.
The crash occurred just before 6.30am.
Drug experts call for a Northland initiative tackling meth use to be rolled out across NZ.
With bad weather, DOC wanted to minimise the number of times the orca had to be shifted.
Flights into Wellington have been disrupted and some Auckland ferry services cancelled.
SH5 users called conditions on the road a "weather-bomb".
The decision to move the whale out of his sea pen was made based on safety advice.
"[I] first saw it when one of my flatmates started crying out that there was a fire."
Brrr - it's a cold and frosty start for most of the country tomorrow.
More rain is forecast for parts of Northland this evening.
Heavy rain and gale warnings are in place for the top half of New Zealand today.
"Severe gales" expected for Northland and Auckland, snow for parts of the South.