Natural Disasters

Helicopters continue to rescue people from roofs and fly generators to farflung hills to reboot cellphone towers.

Last evening the government said 25 individuals or groups still needed rescuing 

The… Audio

A fifth person has been confirmed dead in Cyclone Gabrielle, and police fear the huge storm may have taken even more lives.

The latest death, announced this morning, is a person in Gisborne who is… Audio

The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle has risen to five, with the discovery of a body in floodwaters in Gisborne. 

Authorities are working to establish whether there have been any more fatalities… Audio

Efforts are underway to get power, internet and essential services back up and running in Hawkes Bay. 

State Highway 51 between Napier and Hastings reopened at 8pm on Wednesday.

Wairoa remains cut… Audio

The body of a person has been found in Gisborne flood waters.

Police say further details will be provided when they become available.

It is the fifth death death linked to Cyclone Gabrielle.

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Getting supermarket supplies to parts of the country cut off is proving difficult but not impossible.

Overnight, Countdown's supply chain team has been getting essential deliveries on the road to… Audio

Waka Kotahi says travel to and from the Coromandel should be possible by Thursday morning.

A mammoth slip on Northland's State Highway 1 at Dome Valley may be cleared by Friday

Meanwhile across… Audio

Cyclone Gabrielle is well off the coast of the country but her tail is coming back to flick up parts of the South and North islands. 

Metservice is forecasting isolated showers across the North… Audio

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