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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

Brave wee toddler Cameron Davison is the luckiest boy alive.

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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.

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.

Nelson residents near Walters Bluff are being evacuated due to a new fire. Meanwhile, the town of Wakefield is also being evacuated after fire chiefs fears that a northerly wind is picking up and could threaten the town. Video by Mark Mitchell

If you see a trail of waka in the streets of South Auckland this weekend, it'll be paddlers retracing an 800-year-old route established by Tainui warriors.

Earlier: Fire crews brace for at least 48 hours of hard firefighting ahead

The Department of Conservation are attempting to ascertain the identities of two individuals seen pointing BB guns at the rare gulls.