Kate Baron talks tax with Liam Dann.

John Cocks was farewelled in Tairua yesterday.

A family displaced by the Tasman bush fire is camping out looking over their flock of smoke-affected sheep sheltering at an emergency animal refuge centre.

Malcolm Rewa is on trial for a third time, accused of murdering Susan Burdett in 1992.

Earlier: Officials give update on Tasman fire situation

Nats, Labour have criss-crossed several times in other recent polls, writes Audrey Young.

One of New Zealand's largest forest fires appears to have been well fought.

Tasman Fires: Wakefield residents relieved to be told they can return home. / Video by Mark Mitchell

National and Simon Bridges drop in popularity in latest poll.

WATCH: The restaurant called the incident 'a mistake'.

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Earlier: Wakefield residents who were forced to flee their homes to escape the fire risk could be allowed to return tonight, officials say.

Earlier: More than 20 years since he last faced trial over the killing, Malcolm Rewa walked into an Auckland courtroom today with his shoulders hunched and a ring hanging from his neck. For the third time the rapist stands before a jury accused of murdering Susan Burdett.

Earlier: Emergency teams are planning for a tricky day ahead as they hope to contain the Tasman blaze with stronger winds forecast today.

When Jack Wise was caught in a train crash near Parnell, he quickly fired off a "p-mail" to his parents.

Detective Inspector Lew Warner of the Bay of Plenty speaks to The New Zealand Herald about the murder of David Kuka who was killed in 2018 in Tauranga.

Prohibited activities include those where metal meets stone and that can generate sparks.

Terry Coleman, evacuated from his Whitby Rd home in Wakefield on Friday, has gone to a paddock on the Waimea Plain where the grass is dead but the beer is cold.Video / Mark Mitchell

Loo roll in the changing room, cornflakes in the bar:The clubroom-turned-free supermarket.

Wellington mayor Justin Lester and Tim Grafton, Chief executive of the Insurance Council of NZ speak at Wellington

Online petition pushing for man fighting Nelson blaze to be spared.

The latest update on the Tasman fire.

Nearly 900 properties were evacuated in the Wakefield area on Friday.

Tomorrow Malcolm Rewa will defend for the third time a charge that he is also a murderer.

It's not exciting, it's not glamorous and it's certainly not easy.

Hillary's final wishes: "In the unfortunate business of anything going wrong ..."

Former football star Wynton Rufer reunited with the man who saved his life, Nick Moss, for the first time at the scene in Parnell where Wynton suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing. Nick was one of the first on the scene and carried out CPR until help arrived.

Arohata Upper Prison in Upper Hutt are running a kitten fostering programme to help it's female inmates in preparation for their release.

Brave wee toddler Cameron Davison is the luckiest boy alive.

Civil Defence and Fire Services say there is no indication of the current situation ending as the Nelson-Tasman fire continues to burn.