
Evacuations after once in a generation deluge
Torrential rain has flooded homes overnight in the Bay of Plenty, sparking evacuations and more than 20 callouts to emergency services.
Torrential rain has flooded homes overnight in the Bay of Plenty, sparking evacuations and more than 20 callouts to emergency services.
Emergency and Civil Defence teams were gearing up last night for a weather beating expected to hit within hours.
Heavy rain and gales are expected to lash the main islands from tonight, with the MetService warning of one of the "bigger weather events" for some time.
Don't put the umbrellas away just yet. A storm bringing more heavy rain and winds is on its way to parts of the North Island.
Fierce thunderstorms and heavy rains uprooted trees, destroyed homes and killed at least 43 people in northern India.
A second man has been found dead in Fiji after a tropical cyclone hit its eastern islands early this week.
Weather analyst Philip Duncan explains the power of tropical storms.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully says NZ will do 'whatever we have to do' to assist cyclone-ravaged Fiji.