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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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Martinborough cut off again as South Wairarapa bridges close in another winter storm
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- Martinborough and large parts of South Wairarapa were cut off again on Saturday as rising rivers forced the closure of the bridges that link the wine village to the rest of the region, the latest in a run of storms that has left the small town repeatedly isolated through the winter of 2026. All three […]
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Strangles outbreak on 12 North Island horse properties forces new racing rules
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- A highly contagious bacterial disease has swept through a dozen North Island horse properties, forcing the country’s thoroughbred industry to bring in some of its strictest health rules in years and postpone at least one round of race trials. Strangles has now been confirmed on 11 properties in the Waikato and one in Auckland, with […]
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Wairoa declares a state of emergency as overnight flooding forces evacuations and cuts power across the east coast
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- Wairoa is under a state of local emergency after a night of heavy rain drove rivers up, forced people from their homes and knocked out power to hundreds of properties across the east of the North Island. Mayor Craig Little declared the emergency at 11pm on Thursday as floodwaters spread through the district, and by […]
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A deep magnitude 5.4 earthquake off Te Kaha is felt across the North Island
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- A magnitude 5.4 earthquake deep beneath the sea off the eastern Bay of Plenty rattled a large slice of the North Island on Wednesday morning, reaching people from Tauranga to Wellington and even one household in north Auckland. The quake struck at 8.33am, roughly 70 kilometres north of the small coastal settlement of Te Kaha, […]
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Kaikōura declares a state of emergency as the Kōwhai River bursts its banks and cuts the town off
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- Kaikōura has declared a state of emergency after the Kōwhai River burst its banks on Tuesday morning, forcing more than 130 people from their homes and once again cutting the coastal town off from the rest of the South Island. The declaration came as a slow-moving storm that had already swamped Dunedin and Ōamaru pushed […]
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Dunedin escapes the worst as flooding swamps Oamaru and Waitaki declares an emergency
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- Oamaru homes flooded and Waitaki declared a state of emergency while Dunedin's pumps and flood barriers held through a rare red rain warning overnight.
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Dunedin declares a state of emergency as a rare red rain warning floods the city
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- Dunedin has spent the weekend under one of the most serious weather warnings the city can be given, with a rare red heavy rain alert bringing surface flooding, road closures and a scramble to fill sandbags across South Dunedin. Heavy rain arrived earlier than forecasters expected on Sunday and kept falling into the night, with […]
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Rain, wind and snow set to disrupt the first weekend of the school holidays
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- Anyone hoping to start the winter school holidays with a run of settled weather is set to be disappointed. A cold and unsettled change is sweeping up the country, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and snow to low levels, and MetService has already issued a string of warnings as the first weekend of the break […]
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New Zealand switches on SafetyNet, a national network built to keep emergency services talking in a crisis
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- New Zealand quietly switched on one of the biggest pieces of its emergency backbone this week, and most people will never see it. From 1 July, a new government company called SafetyNet Critical Communications took charge of the systems that let police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews talk to one another and to their control […]
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Hundreds cut off in South Wairarapa as floods wash out the same Lake Ferry bridge for the second time this year
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- Hundreds of people in the far south of the Wairarapa are once again stranded behind a broken bridge, after this week’s storm tore out the Tūranganui River crossing on Lake Ferry Road and cut the only sealed route to a string of coastal settlements. The South Wairarapa District Council says about 460 homes have been […]
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Cardrona opens its 2026 ski season after a warm start finally gives way to snow
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- Cardrona Alpine Resort opened its lifts for the 2026 season on Friday, ending weeks of waiting that left one of the country’s busiest skifields staring at brown slopes well past its usual start date. The opening came only after a cold southerly finally pushed across the South Island on Wednesday and Thursday, dropping enough snow […]
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Severe southerly gales batter Wellington as ferries and flights are cancelled across the country
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- A fierce winter southerly has slammed into Wellington and much of the rest of the country, cancelling Cook Strait ferries, grounding flights, closing highways and cutting power to homes as some of the strongest winds of the season sweep up New Zealand. MetService put orange wind warnings in place for Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds, […]
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New Zealand skier Hannah Hughes survives a 170 metre avalanche in Norway and says it is a miracle nobody died
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- A New Zealand skier who was swept around 170 metres down a Norwegian mountainside in a wall of snow has spoken about the terrifying moment an avalanche tore through her group, calling the survival of all 13 people on the trip an extraordinary stroke of luck. Hannah Hughes, 34, was on a guided ski and […]
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Heavy rain, gales and snow sweep into the South Island as a powerful winter front moves up the country
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- A powerful winter system is sweeping into the South Island this weekend, with MetService warning of heavy rain, severe gales and falling snow as a vigorous front pushes up the country from Saturday into Sunday. The weather agency says a strong northwest airflow is being followed by the front, which moves onto the south of […]
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Loose fence wire wrapped around the tail rotor brought down a pest control helicopter north of Wellington, a new report finds
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- A single strand of old fence wire, lying low in long grass and almost impossible to see from the air, wrapped around the tail rotor of a pest control helicopter and brought it down in the hills north of Wellington, killing both men on board. That is the finding of a preliminary report from the […]
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