2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1170+ words) Heavy rain is causing disruption across parts of Northland, with several roads closed or restricted by floodwater and possible damage to infrastructure. Whangārei District Council reported closures on multiple roads, with a blocked culvert suspected to have contributed to the…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (417+ words) Heavy rain that drenched the upper North Island from Northland to Auckland and the Bay of Plenty has subsided. Yesterday, flooding in Northland closed several roads while police asked the public to avoid unnecessary travel as river levels rose. The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (733+ words) The North Island’s Whanganui National Park and Waitōtara Conservation Area will share in a...Potaka on Tuesday announced the four-year boost to national parks and conservation areas from the Government’s...reinvasion to support ecosystem recovery. Whanganui National Park will get…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (614+ words) By Phil Pennington of RNZ Earlier this year, electrical expert Daniel Müller experimented at home with putting in a switch – and made his toaster light up. It’s a switch that till now has been banned. But that ban is about…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (709+ words) The East Coast is in crisis. Recent coverage in the New Zealand Listener and on 1News has again shown the scale of the challenge facing Tairāwhiti. Vast areas of highly erodible hill country remain planted in production forestry, communities live with…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (893+ words) Meteorologists, councils and farming leaders say now is the time for households and farmers to prepare for a drier spring and summer as El Niño takes hold. With below-normal rainfall forecast through at least the end of the year and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (431+ words) bout of severe weather. MetService head of weather news Heather Keats said the North Island is “probably...by meteorological seasons. So that is very good news,” Keats told Ryan Bridge TODAY. “But the features...