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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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Wellington Airport fire leaves travellers stranded after blaze in terminal wall cavity
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- Hundreds of travellers were left stranded at Wellington Airport on Friday night after a fire broke out inside a wall cavity in the main terminal, forcing a full evacuation, holding flights for about four hours and stretching disruption into Saturday. The alarm was raised just after 7pm on Friday 12 June, when smoke was detected […]
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Missing Christchurch woman Valerie Hargrave found alive after neighbours join the search
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- An 81-year-old Christchurch woman who vanished from her Woolston home has been found alive after days of searching that drew in police, trained volunteers and dozens of ordinary neighbours who refused to give up on her. Valerie Hargrave was last confirmed seen on Saturday morning, leaving her home in the St John Street area at […]
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Wellington declares a state of emergency and orders south coast evacuations as 10 metre swells bear down
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- Wellington has declared a local state of emergency and ordered hundreds of people off the capital’s south coast as some of the largest swells in years close in on the lower North Island. Mayor Andrew Little signed the declaration for the city’s Southern and Eastern wards on Monday evening, and a mandatory evacuation took effect […]
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Orange warnings cover Bay of Plenty and Taranaki as storms sweep the North Island
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- Thousands of New Zealanders started the weekend in the dark and the wet as a violent band of storms rolled up the country, knocking out power overnight and leaving the top half of the North Island braced for heavy rain, thunder and the small chance of a tornado. The system first lit up the South […]
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Mother and son sentenced after trying to take 18 kilograms of greenstone out of New Zealand
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- A mother and son who were caught trying to carry almost 18 kilograms of pounamu, the greenstone that Ngāi Tahu regard as a national treasure, through Auckland Airport have appeared for sentencing in the Manukau District Court, closing the first case of its kind New Zealand Customs has ever taken to a conviction. Xin Li […]
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Geothermal bore bursts at a Rotorua marae and shoots a 30 metre column of water and mud into the sky
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- A long abandoned geothermal bore has burst into life at a Rotorua marae this week, throwing a column of water, steam and mud some 30 metres into the sky and coating nearby buildings and cars in a fine white residue. The eruption began about 4.30pm at Tarewa Pounamu Marae on Tarewa Road and was still […]
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Auckland water bills rise 7.2 percent from July as Watercare funds a 13.8 billion dollar upgrade
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- Auckland households will pay more for their water from the start of next month, with Watercare confirming water and wastewater charges will rise by 7.2 percent from 1 July. The increase lands on top of a separate 7.9 percent average rates rise from Auckland Council, leaving many ratepayers facing a double squeeze just as winter […]
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Otago egg farm back to 200,000 birds 18 months after New Zealand’s first bird flu cull
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- The Otago egg farm that sat at the centre of New Zealand’s first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu is back to a full flock, with about 200,000 hens once again living in its sheds roughly 18 months after every bird on the property was put down. Mainland Poultry’s free range farm at Hillgrove, near […]
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Solo Trans-Tasman sailor Graeme Francis survives a night bailing his flooding yacht off the far north
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- A 69-year-old yachtsman is safely back on dry land at Mangōnui after spending about 16 hours alone in a flooding boat, pumping water through the night while big swells battered his vessel off the top of the North Island. Graeme Francis, a New Plymouth Yacht Club member, was competing in the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht […]
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Seven dead on New Zealand roads in the worst King’s Birthday weekend toll since 2016
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- Seven people have died on New Zealand roads over King’s Birthday weekend, making it the deadliest holiday period of its kind in a decade and prompting a sombre plea from police for drivers to take care on the journey home. The official holiday count ran from 4pm on Friday and was due to close at […]
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Coronet Peak opens weeks early as the South Island fires up its first snow factory
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- Skiers were carving turns at Coronet Peak over the long weekend, weeks ahead of the field’s usual June start, after New Zealand’s South Island switched on its first snow factory and guaranteed an early opening regardless of the weather. The Queenstown ski area, run by NZSki, opened on Friday 29 May, the same day the […]
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Auckland ratepayers face record 7.9 percent rates rise from July as council backs Wayne Brown budget to fund City Rail Link
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- Aucklanders will pay the largest rates rise in the super city’s history from July after the Auckland Council governing body voted 14 to 7 yesterday to pass Mayor Wayne Brown’s 7.9 percent average increase for the 2026 to 2027 year, with almost all of the lift earmarked to run the City Rail Link once it […]
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Christchurch councillor proposes winter ice rink for Cathedral Square as 28.5 million dollar redesign reaches final five
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- A Christchurch city councillor wants the council to install a winter ice skating rink in the middle of Cathedral Square, arguing that new pavers and planter boxes alone will never coax people back into the city’s old civic heart while the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral remains fenced off as a working construction site. The pitch […]
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Independent review puts irregular police breath tests at 42,678 as NZTA releases full WSP report
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- An independent analysis commissioned by the New Zealand Transport Agency has put the number of “irregular” alcohol breath tests recorded by police at 42,678, around 12,000 more than the figure first reported when the issue surfaced last year. The full report, produced by infrastructure consultancy WSP and released by NZTA to RNZ on Friday, examined […]
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Operation Jasper sees twenty arrested over alleged corruption at Mt Eden and Wiri prisons
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- Twenty people have been arrested and charged following Operation Jasper, a ten-month investigation by the Police National Organised Crime Group into alleged corruption at three of the country’s largest prisons. Police executed twenty-five search warrants across Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty this week, with the arrests centred on the Mt Eden Corrections Facility […]
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Colossal Biosciences hatches 26 chicks from a transparent artificial egg as Peter Jackson backed moa revival aims for a hatched bird within a decade
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- Colossal Biosciences has announced what it calls a major step toward bringing back the South Island giant moa, telling reporters this week that its researchers have successfully hatched 26 chickens from a transparent artificial egg the company sees as the foundation of any future moa revival. The Texas based biotech firm is partnered with Sir […]
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