Evacuations, floods and slips: The damage caused by last week's deadly storms

Caption:Work resumes at the Mount Maunganui landslide site on January 26.Photo credit:RNZ/Nick MonroMax Furse-Kee, 15, Sharon Maccanico, 15 and Susan Knowles, 71, are three of the six Mt Maunganui landslide victims.SUPPLIEDFlooding near Papamoa Hills, Tauranga, in the area where a house was destroyed in a slip overnight.RNZ/Alan GibsonFlooding in Whitianga last week.RNZ/Charlotte CookA slip on State Highway 2 through the Waioweka Gorge.Supplied/NZTAA property is extensively damaged as a landslide on Mount Paku’s Motuhoa Road comes down behind it.RNZ/Calvin Samuel

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at He Maimai Aroha on Monday after the Mount Maunganui landslide

Mount Maunganui landslide recovery site 26/06

The Gisborne District Council says flooding and slips have severely impacted Onepoto, Wharekahika and Te Araroa.

Max Furse-Kee, 15, Sharon Maccanico, 15 and Susan Knowles, 71, are three of the six Mt Maunganui landslide victims.

Screengrab from the NZTA Journey Planner website showing the approximate location of a crash on 26 June 2026.

A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.

Marine Drive, Lowry Bay, Wellington on 26 June.

Housing Minister Chris Bishop announcing a major social housing shake-up at Parliament on 21 May 2026.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force Poseidon crew has found a solo fisherman missing for a week in the northern Cook Islands.
The missing Cook Islands fisherman was able to wave to the crew of the P-8A after they found him west of Pukapuka Island.

A dejected All Whites captain Chris Wood