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State Highway 8 between Fairlie and lake Tekapo earlier today.
Caption:State Highway 8 between Fairlie and lake Tekapo earlier today.Photo credit:Supplied / NZTA Waka KotahiA team of volunteers filled sandbags for hours at Dunedin Ice Stadium.RNZ / Louis Dunham
MetService’s weather watches and warnings on the morning of 10 April. Weather watches are denoted by yellow, while warnings are orange.
A team of volunteers has been filling sandbags for hours at Dunedin Ice Stadium.
An umbrella in heavy rain.
An umbrella in heavy rain.
Emergency services free a driver trapped in his car in rising flood waters near Mt Lyford.
The aftermath of a fire in Spur Grove, Tītahi Bay, Porirua, on 21 June 2026, which badly damaged a house and a caravan on neighbouring properties the night before.
Flooding in Kaikoura in 1993.
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A sign on SH1 near Kaikōura
Transport Minister Chris Bishop said the extension will be a ‘critical freight and economic link’. Credit Bruce Mackay / The Post
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, pictured in London in October, has been accused of deeply offensive, racist and antisemitic behavior throughout his teenage years at school.
Two elderly people sit on a bench looking at a view of sea and hills.