A crucial Coromandel highway with a big hole in it, will reopen tonight at 7pm and will stay open overnight.
A chunk of State Highway 25 between Hikuai and Whangamatā has fallen away.
The hole has taken out a whole lane and is eating into the second lane. It's been closed today for crews to work on - but will reopen to light vehicles overnight. It's now a lifeline highway for the Coromandel after the other main road - SH25A - was washed away in earlier storms.
Cara Lauder is Waka Kotahi's System Manager for the Waikato.
She talks to Lisa Owen.
