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Review finds the Mount Maunganui landslide that killed six was preventable
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- Retired judge Paul Davison found Tauranga City Council was warned about the slope above the campground for more than 25 years.
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Poultry farmers can claim up to $25,000 to bird proof their sheds against bird flu
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- Poultry farmers can now apply for government money to keep wild birds out of their sheds, under a $1.5 million grant that opened on Tuesday while New Zealand waits to find out whether H5 bird flu reaches a commercial flock. The Poultry Biosecurity Grant will reimburse producers for up to half the cost of the […]
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Snow warnings run from the Desert Road to Arthur’s Pass as inland temperatures head for minus nine
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- Snow warnings ran in an almost unbroken line from the middle of the North Island to the top of the Southern Alps on Sunday, and forecasters say the coldest part of the outbreak is still ahead of us. MetService had road snowfall warnings in place for five of the country’s most exposed stretches of state […]
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Porirua water main burst shuts library and pool as new water company faces tighter oversight
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- A burst water main cut supply to central Porirua on Saturday afternoon, closing the city’s library, its art museum and its main pool complex, and leaving crews digging into a cracked road well into the evening. The 300mm main gave way on Mepham Place about 2.20pm, breaking up the asphalt above it and cutting water […]
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Avocado oil sold in New Zealand fails purity tests as growers push for a food crime unit
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- Bottles of avocado oil on New Zealand supermarket shelves are at the centre of a fraud allegation, after an industry group paid for laboratory testing that it says shows some products sold as pure avocado oil have been cut with other, cheaper oils. The claims were reported by 1News on Friday and have been rejected […]
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Gisborne under an orange rain warning as thunderstorms hit already soaked ground
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- Heavy rain and thunderstorms have kept the northern half of the Gisborne district under an orange severe weather warning through Friday, with Civil Defence telling people to clear their drains, stay out of low-lying ground and expect rivers to come up fast. MetService reissued the warning at 9.17am on Friday 14 August, covering Gisborne and […]
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SIS says it disrupted a Chinese attempt to install satellite tracking equipment in New Zealand
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- The Security Intelligence Service says it stopped an organisation linked to the Chinese government from installing satellite tracking gear here, in its 2026 threat report released today.
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Coroner urges trampers to stop and call for help after Arthur’s Pass hypothermia death
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- A coroner has urged trampers to stop and call for help the moment they realise they are lost, rather than pressing on in the hope of finding the way back, after finding that a Christchurch woman died of hypothermia in Arthur’s Pass National Park about 700 metres from the track she had set out to […]
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Ohakune waits another day for tap water as crews refill an earthquake-damaged pipeline
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- Ohakune has been without tap water since Sunday after a repair to a pipeline damaged by the 25 July Taumarunui earthquake left the line full of air.
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New Zealand Air Force crew finds missing Fijian boat after six hour search
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- Six people missing overnight in Fiji's Lau Group were found alive after an RNZAF P-8A Poseidon spotted their boat in heavy seas.
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Scientists recover New Zealand’s 11th meteorite from a Wairarapa farm
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- Four small stones picked up off farmland north of Masterton have been confirmed as New Zealand’s 11th meteorite, and only the fourth ever collected here after somebody actually watched it fall. The fragments weigh 8 grams, 9 grams, 12 grams and 40 grams. The largest is roughly the size of a walnut. It is, by […]
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Snow closes Dunedin roads and schools as a polar blast sweeps up the country
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- Snow fell to sea level in Dunedin on Tuesday morning, closing state highways, shutting schools and stranding buses as a blast of Antarctic air pushed up the eastern side of the country. Police asked people across the lower South Island to stay off the roads entirely, and by mid-morning the city was effectively cut off […]
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Volcanic tremor under Ruapehu rises to a level not recorded in two years
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- Scientists monitoring Mount Ruapehu say the constant tremor beneath the mountain has strengthened over the past fortnight to a level not recorded in at least two years, though almost every other sign they watch has stayed flat and the volcano remains on the lowest rung of unrest. GeoNet published a volcanic activity bulletin on Monday […]
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Snowboarders lost for six hours near Treble Cone as police warn about the back country
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- Two snowboarders who left the marked area at Treble Cone spent about six hours lost in heavy snow and near-zero visibility on Thursday, and were found by rescuers roughly an hour before dark. Police were alerted at about 1.45pm on Thursday 30 July that the pair needed help near the Wānaka ski field. In a […]
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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake near Porirua draws almost 9,000 felt reports
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- Almost 9,000 people told GeoNet they felt the magnitude 4.6 quake 30km north-west of Porirua late on Friday, with 85 percent of reports from within 50km.
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Climber rescued from a Mount Aspiring crevasse after a companion climbed three hours to raise the alarm
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- A climber fell an estimated 200 metres into a crevasse on Mount Aspiring on Tuesday. Their partner climbed for more than three hours to find phone reception before a 1am helicopter rescue.
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New Zealand power demand hits an all-time record of 7141 megawatts as the frost bites
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- New Zealand’s electricity grid set an all-time record on Monday morning as a bitter cold snap sent households reaching for the heater at the same moment. Transpower, the state-owned company that runs the national grid, said peak demand reached 7141 megawatts, the highest figure ever recorded on the New Zealand system. The record came in […]
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Fireball off the Oamaru coast triggers a plane crash search before police realise it was a meteor
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- A caller reported an aircraft on fire falling into the sea near Kakanui on Sunday evening. Within an hour police had worked out it was a meteor.
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Auckland sinkhole opens on a St Marys Bay street patched since the 2023 floods
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- A sinkhole big enough to swallow a car has opened on a central Auckland street that has been covered by a steel plate since the January 2023 floods, and Watercare says the repair will take about two months. The hole appeared on Hackett Street in St Marys Bay about 5.30pm on Thursday 23 July. It […]
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Retiring volunteer radio operators and ageing gear leave gaps in New Zealand’s rescue network
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- When a fishing boat stops answering the radio somewhere off the coast, the first person to notice is often a volunteer sitting in a small room with a set of receivers and a good knowledge of the local water. New Zealand has relied on those people for decades. They are now retiring, and the agencies […]
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Icy blast brings minus 6 frost at Mount Cook, snow warnings and fresh Mount Maunganui slips
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- An icy southwesterly has swept the length of New Zealand this weekend, dropping the mercury to well below freezing in the south, dusting alpine passes with snow, and forcing a fresh round of road closures as the cold air met sodden ground in the north. MetService recorded the country’s lowest temperature at Aoraki Mount Cook, […]
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New Zealand quietly passes one gigawatt of local solar power
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- New Zealand has quietly passed one gigawatt of solar on local networks, new Electricity Authority data shows, and businesses now hold more of it than homes.
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The geology behind the magnitude 5.9 Taumarunui earthquake
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- The Taumarunui earthquake came from normal faulting in stretching crust at the edge of the Taupō Volcanic Zone. What the geology shows and what comes next.
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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Taumarunui shakes much of the North Island before dawn
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- For thousands of people across the central North Island, Saturday began with a jolt. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near Taumarunui at 4.51am on 25 July, waking sleepers from the Waikato to Wellington and shaking buildings across a wide stretch of the country before dawn. GeoNet, the agency that monitors earthquakes and volcanoes in New […]
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Cloud burst floods homes in the Grey District as wild weather sweeps up the country
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- A sudden burst of heavy rain flooded about half a dozen homes in the Grey District overnight, closed a state highway and set off a slip, as a wild weather system began working its way up the country. West Coast Emergency Management described what hit the district in the early hours of Friday as a […]
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Auckland Council votes to scale back its housing density plan and drop 20 local centres
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- Auckland Council has voted to scale back the largest rezoning in the city’s history, keeping apartment heights around train stations and frequent bus routes while removing six-storey zoning from more than 20 smaller local centres. Councillors backed the revised version of Plan Change 120 on 21 July by 17 votes to five, RNZ reported. The […]
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Tuakau residents evacuated after a large amount of unknown chemical enters the town’s drains
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- Residents of the north Waikato town of Tuakau were evacuated on Tuesday afternoon after a large amount of an unknown chemical entered the drains near the town’s water treatment plant, and others were told to shut themselves indoors while emergency crews tried to work out what the substance was. Fire and Emergency New Zealand said […]
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Police convict every member of the Christchurch Comancheros chapter in a $15 million drug case
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- Every member of the Christchurch chapter of the Comancheros Motorcycle Club has now been convicted on drug charges, closing out one of the largest organised crime investigations run in the South Island in recent years. Police confirmed the outcome on Monday, saying all 29 people arrested under Operation Avon have been convicted of a range […]
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Magnitude 6.3 Te Anau earthquake shakes the South Island
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- A magnitude 6.3 earthquake near Te Anau shook New Zealand's lower South Island on Thursday night and briefly triggered a tsunami warning for Fiordland.
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Three trampers rescued from Mount Taranaki as ice and snow grip the mountain
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- Three trampers are recovering after being plucked from the frozen upper slopes of Mount Taranaki on Sunday, in a rescue that police say came close to ending in tragedy. Two of the group were seriously injured and a third was trapped by the ice when the alarm was raised about 10.30am, with the trio scattered […]
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