Waikato is preparing for floods as heavy rain threatens to push already-swollen rivers past their limits.

Stadium Southland organisers have adopted the slogan "Game on 2012" after having a multi-million dollar insurance claim for their collapsed roof accepted today.

Sunday saw one of the best starts to daylight saving that I've seen in years. Not only did both the North and South Island take the national high with 24 degrees in Napier and Kaikoura, but several other centres also climbed into the 20s in

Howling winds up to 100kmh are hampering efforts to rescue 24 surviving whales on a beach in the Far North.

The recent severe weather may have played a part in the birth of a zebra at Auckland Zoo.

A large pod of pilot whales stranded on a Far North beach will hopefully be refloated tomorrow.

Surviving pilot whales from a stranded pod may have to be refloated at a more sheltered bay.

Gales and heavy rain pounding the North Island have shattered weather records, and winds last night hampered rescue efforts after a mass whale stranding at the northern tip of NZ.

Another cold front is set to bring more wet weather to a battered North Island with more snow forecast for Southland.

Wild weather is continuing to cause disruption across NZ, closing roads and causing power cuts.

Raging squalls shook houses and cut power to thousands yesterday in what forecasters called a 'lull' in the storm ravaging NZ.

The corpses of newborn lambs are piling up in their tens of thousands as cold weather continues to hit Southland.

12,000 people are still without power in the North Island as wild weather continues to plague the country.

It was the storm that the chief forecaster at MetService said wasn't going to be big, and was angry at the media for saying so and for using, what he called, emotive language...

Questions are being raised about the strength of Stadium Southland's now collapsed roof.

Severe snow, wind and rain is expected to continue to batter parts of the country but Auckland looks set to escape the worst of it.

Hundreds of North Island homes have been hit by power cuts as high winds continue to lash regions still reeling from the weekend's storm.

Southlanders are being urged to prepare for further high winds today and more snow tomorrow.