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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Japan's eastern coast, shaking the Tokyo area.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary said no abnormalities have been detected at Japan's nuclear facilities, including… Audio

Mercury Energy is investigating the cause of a fire at one of its wind turbines on the Tararua Range near Palmerston North.

The fire, which set plumes of smoke into the sky near Aokautere, was left… Audio

Thomas Phillips and his children are back home, safe, in what many saw as a miracle after 19 nights in the bush. But questions remain as to why he disappeared in the first place.  Audio

Relief has flooded through the Marokopa and Kiritehere communities now that Thomas Phillips and his three children have returned home alive and well.

Phillips and eight year old Jayda Jin, six year… Audio

It's been four months since the Ashburton district was slammed with a one in two hundred year flood and still the clean up continues.

With most of the $4 million in government help now accounted for… Audio

Thomas Phillips, who miraculously walked out the bush with his three children yesterday, has apologised to his sister for putting the family through a 17-day ordeal.

Thomas and his three young… Audio

Thomas Phillips, who miraculously walked out the bush with his three children yesterday, has apologised to his sister for putting the family through a 17-day ordeal.

Thomas and his three young… Audio

There's relief in the small King Country settlement of Kiritehere.

On Thursday Thomas Phillips and his three children turned up alive and well at their family's farmhouse in nearby Marokopa after… Audio

A magnitude 6 earthquake has struck near Melbourne.

Geoscience Australia says the quake hit shortly after 11 this morning about 150 kilometres east of the city at a depth of 10 kilometres.

It was… Audio

A week after Thomas Phillips and his children went missing, Otorohanga District Mayor Max Baxter says hopes of finding them alive are dwindling.

The search has scaled back to focus on the coastline… Audio

Bad weather is hampering the search for a King Country man and his three children missing on the North Island's rugged west coast.

34-year-old Thomas Phillips and his children Ember, Maverick and… Audio

The government says it was not possible to deport the man at the centre of last week's terror attack, because he was appealing a decision to cancel his refugee status.

But the National Party and some… Video, Audio

As the rain fell again today, it was no consolation for some West Auckland business owners still cleaning up after last week's devastating floods.

Some Kumeu businesses had no insurance. Others… Video, Audio

Ruined cars, sodden belongings and ripped up gardens. West Aucklanders have been taking stock of what they lost in Monday night's deluge.

Bethells Beach remains cut off because of a washed-out… Video, Audio

Many West Auckland residents are currently facing the double-whammy of dealing with an Alert Level 4 lockdown and homes that were badly damaged by yesterday's floods. So how do people go about making… Audio

As if level 4 lockdown wasn't bad enough, some west Auckland residents have been forced to flee their homes when flood waters rushed into their houses and continued rising.

In some places the water… Video, Audio

Wallace Chapman and panellists Wendyl Nissen and Sir Ian Taylor talk to Glenn Wheeler and Emily Lane about thunder, lightning, floods and power cuts. Audio

The clean up has started in West Auckland where overnight rainfall caused widespread flooding and damage. Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has been to the hardest hit area, Kumeu to assess the damage and… Audio

Hours of continuous heavy rain in Auckland has caused evacuations from flooded homes in the city's West, submerged cars and some roads are awash.The suburbs of Kumeū, Ranui and Henderson Valley have… Audio

There's a risk there will be no surf lifeguards at Paekakariki beach, on the Kāpiti Coast, this summer.

Paekakariki Surf Lifeguards' clubhouse has been closed due to structural concerns.

It's the… Video, Audio