Natural Disasters

A Hawke's Bay lumber yard and sawmill that employs hundreds of locals has been completely swamped, with the last workers onsite carried to safety on a large loader.

Pan Pac on State Highway 2 at… Video, Audio

The small community of Aotea Great Barrier Island is in clean-up mode, after copping it from Cyclone Gabrielle on Monday.

The Local Board Chair is Izzy Fordham. Video, Audio

In the Coromandel town of Tairua residents are now facing a fourth night cut off without power.

Our reporter Leonard Powell is there. Video, Audio

Paramedics and rescue helicopters have been up and down the east coast today dropping off supplies and assessing the welfare of residents cut off.

SH35 from Gisborne to Hicks Bay is still closed and… Video, Audio

Some Dargaville residents are being urged to evacuate their homes.

The Kaipara District Council says people who live along River Road, and Victoria and Logan Streets, as well as side streets and… Audio

In Āwhitu on Auckland's Manukau Heads it's a story that's becoming sadly familiar.

Many people are still without power, and major slips have closed roads, isolating residents.

Checkpoint reporter… Video, Audio

Gisborne residents have been urged to conserve water, with the main supply damaged in the storm.

Tairāwhiti Civil Defence controller Ben Green talks to Lisa Owen. Video, Audio

Cyclone Gabrielle has gone but her legacy is the most catastrophic weather event in living memory.

The storm left parts of the upper North Island resembling parts of a jigsaw.

Wairoa is essentially… Video, Audio

Parts of the Coromandel have had a fourth day with no power. 

Thames-Coromadel Civil Defence Controller Garry Towler talks to Lisa Owen Video, Audio

Today on The Panel, Wallace and panellists Johny O Donnell and Cindy Mitchener discuss supply chain issues following Cyclone Gabrielle and speak to Telecommunications forum CEO Paul Brislen. Plus they… Audio

The Government is providing an initial four million dollars in funding support for farmers and growers affected by Cyclone Gabrielle.

It would be used to help support rural communities in regions… Audio

A body has been found by searchers looking for a missing firefighter under a collapsed house in Muriwai.

It's been more than 24 hours since Dave van Zwananberg went missing beneath the wreckage.

A… Audio

Tairāwhiti's connections to the outside world are severed - power is patchy, a fibre optic cable is down - affecting Internet and phone services; while many roads and bridges are damaged and unusable.

Wairoa's mayor Craig Little has made contact, saying the town's been hit by the most catastrophic weather event in living memory. 

He says there's been severe river flooding after the water rose at… Audio

Evacuations continue in Hawke's Bay.

Six army trucks have arrived at the Hastings Sports Centres full of rescued people.

RNZ's reporter on the ground Lauren Crimp told Max Towle there were about 90… Audio

As flood waters rose throughout Hawkes Bay yesterday the call went out for anyone with a jet boat to get in the water to help rescue people and stock.

Andrew Hardie is a dairy farmer from Dannevirke… Audio

There have been two further deaths in the past 24 hours, both in Hawkes Bay.

Civil defence reported late last night that a woman in Putorino had died after a bank collapsed onto her home.

Police… Audio

Hawkes Bay was one of the hardest hit regions in yesterday's floods, with crops swallowed by water and people stranded in their homes.

Among them is Jonty Moffet an orchardist in the Hastings'… Audio

The Gisborne Mayor says newspapers will be delivered to all residents in Gisborne today with an urgent conserve water notice. 

Internet is down in Tairāwhiti. 

Mayor Rehette Stoltz says the region… Audio

In Hastings and Napier, around 60,000 people are without power and it's expected to be days or weeks before power is returned to all customers.

Transpower announced a national grid emergency… Audio