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.

High-profile prisoner Arthur Taylor speaks to the Herald's Anna Leask after his release from prison.

"I saw her legs over the side of the bed, naked from the waist down."

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

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

It's really going off in a temporary supermarket of donated goods for fire evacuees at the Nelson Suburbs football club at Sachin Fields, Stoke, Nelson.

Terry Coleman isn't sure if he'll have a home to go back to.

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

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.

The fire wreaking havoc near Nelson is burning into its fifth day, covering 2100ha with a perimeter of 27km. / Video by Mark Mitchell

Today is the last chance for Kiwis to get wet and wild as the world's longest waterslide is open for one last time at Bethells Beach this afternoon at 2pm.

Ground crews will continue to work through the night after Nelson residents were evacuated after a second fire broke out in Walters Bluff.