Amy Williams

An Auckland man who planned a violent attack targeting non-Muslims, after becoming radicalised online, has today been sentenced to two years and five months in prison.

The 21 year old appeared today… Audio

The country's largest insurer says 20,000 homes across the country are at severe risk of flooding and it is in talks with government about where flood-damaged houses should be written off for good.

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Water is a sought after resource in Gisborne where restrictions mean many on town supply are going without showers, and turning the washing machine on is a distant memory.

Tai Rāwhiti Civil Defence… Video, Audio

Gisborne businesses are battling water shortages to keep their doors open, with some forced to cart in thousands of litres from home tanks. 

Many have been closed until Tuesday, when the Council… Audio

In Turanga nui a kiwa, Gisborne, businesses are digging deep into silt, and into their pockets for money they say they don't have. As they try clean up and get back onto their feet.

But there is… Audio

Hundreds of people in the coastal West Auckland community of Muriwai are yet to return to their homes after landslides brought two houses down, while many more are too dangerous to enter.

Across the… Audio

Large swathes of the North Island are now under a state of emergency, with many regions feeling the force of Cyclone Gabrielle.

A state of emergency has been declared in Northland, Auckland… Video, Audio

Clean out your gutters and drains, secure trampolines and move your cars to higher ground - Aucklanders are urged to get ready for the next big storm.

Category Three Cyclone Gabrielle is expected to… Audio

A housing crisis, and then floods - the government is scrambling to provide longer term accommodation for hundreds of people displaced in Auckland.

The Temporary Accommodation Service is now tasked… Audio

Auckland roads were gridlocked this morning as people dodged flooded and damaged roads to get to work and school.

Twenty roads remain closed, a dozen restaurants and at least one hotel are shut - and… Video, Audio

Insurers are bringing in extra staff from overseas and warning it will be years before all claims are settled for flood damaged homes and cars in Auckland.  

Thousands of homes across the region are… Audio

So instead of throwing open their doors to students, Auckland school principals are welcoming displaced families and counting the cost of Friday's flood damage.

Amy Williams has the story. Audio

Carmel Sepuloni - from a working class family in Waitara who worked in education before rising through the ranks of government - has been named as New Zealand's new deputy Prime Minister.

Sepuloni… Audio

Three children who've been missing for a year with their father who's known to go bush are likely to be feeling anxious about being isolated from other family members for so long.

Tom Phillips and… Audio

Food banks around the country say they've had a flood of demand on re-opening this year and it's not just the homeless needing help.

City Missions say people who have jobs but can't afford their… Audio

Forget house prices, let's talk partridges. The cost of putting on a Christmas spread and buying gifts for your true love has soared in recent years thanks to inflation.

Fifteen years ago we… Audio

Imagine recovering from cancer only to have a leg or arm become more and more swollen, and not be able to get the treatment you need - that's the case for many lymphoedema patients around the country… Audio

People living with a chronic condition that causes a limb to swell are choosing to go to Australia for surgical treatment that isn't offered here, and paying out of their own pocket.

Many are cancer… Audio