Electricity users, retailers push back against Powerco's price hike plan.

Properties in hill country around Taihape could be without power for a week or longer.

Snowstorm's damage "much greater" than first thought, power company says.

One last band of rain will soak the country before a couple of days of fine weather.

A solar powered electric vehicle charger is opened to the public in Tauranga and will provide free charging for the next year.

A man is in critical condition after a two-truck crash in Palmerston North, which has closed the road as freight spilled across both lanes.

He started as an outside chance, but Neil Holdom's strong campaign won him the New Plymouth mayoralty by 500 votes. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Powerco, the energy lines company, reported a 20 per cent drop in annual profit as it paid more tax.

More than 1000 properties remain without power after fierce winds lashed the lower North Island and brought down electricity lines yesterday.

Electricity has been restored to the 5500 Wairarapa households that suffered power cuts after strong winds snapped power poles yesterday.

The Commerce Commission has a big call to make by the end of the year.