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Race against time: Fears grow for missing as Mt Maunganui landslide search stalls

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22 Jan 12:53 AM

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'The house is just flat': Family evacuate after landslide hits neighbouring homes

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Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

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Gloriavale pupils offered two schooling paths after commune's school shutdown

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'I was nearly in tears': Father's relief as Pharmac proposes funding 'miracle drug' for toddlers

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'The house is just flat': Family evacuate after landslide hits neighbouring homes

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Race against time: Fears grow for missing as Mt Maunganui landslide search stalls

'The house is just flat': Family evacuate after landslide hits neighbouring homes

Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

Family with small children trapped for hours on roof without wet weather gear

Travel warning: SH5 blocked in both directions after truck crash near Waipunga

Gloriavale pupils offered two schooling paths after commune's school shutdown

Hawke’s Bay deluge brings flooded carparks, river relief and toilet warnings

'I was nearly in tears': Father's relief as Pharmac proposes funding 'miracle drug' for toddlers

Kevin Trenberth: NZ is again being soaked this summer – record ocean heat helps explain it

NZ First starts election year on high in new poll

Audrey Young: As NZ tiptoes around Donald Trump, Canada takes a stand

Washed-out bridge near Bland Bay cuts off locals

'We all make mistakes': Why worker was watering tree in wild Auckland storms

Moment Mount Maunganui came crashing down: Witness on violent shaking before 'disaster'

Washed-out bridge near Bland Bay cuts off locals

NZ Herald Live: Slip at Mount Maunganui campground update

Photos show the scale of the storm damage

Helena Bay hill slip

NZ Herald Live: Chris Hipkins speaks to media

Pāpāmoa flooding and slips

Mount Maunganui campground landslip

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Gang funeral to bring high police presence to Masterton

Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

F-22 fighter jet plan for Warbirds air show sparks anger over civilian deaths

'The house is just flat': Family evacuate after landslide hits neighbouring homes

NZ Herald Live: Slip at Mount Maunganui campground update

Photos show the scale of the storm damage

‘It will surprise us all’: Wealthy donor tips Opportunities Party to enter Parliament

‘Extraordinary impact’: A2 Milk CFO wins top Deloitte finance award

Fisher and Paykel Healthcare wins Deloitte Top 200 Best growth award

Tower’s digital revamp drives most improved Deloitte award win

Deloitte Top 200: How values shaped Clarus’ inclusive culture

'I was nearly in tears': Father's relief as Pharmac proposes funding 'miracle drug' for toddlers

'The sanity, not the scenery': Why James Cameron moved to NZ

Back to work sooner: ACC unveils plan to avoid $26 billion deficit

Minister orders review after Wellington Airport bomb scare

'The sanity, not the scenery': Why James Cameron moved to NZ

F-22 fighter jet plan for Warbirds air show sparks anger over civilian deaths

Kiwi golfer holes a breakthrough year

Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

Kevin Trenberth: NZ is again being soaked this summer – record ocean heat helps explain it

'We all make mistakes': Why worker was watering tree in wild Auckland storms

'Problematic' - 541 new Auckland apartments unsold, 20% of stock built in last three years

Minister praises Northland grandfather for saving family in raging Mōkau floodwaters

Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

Signs of life - then silence: Missing campers heard yelling from rubble at Mount Maunganui after collapse

'The house is just flat': Family evacuate after landslide hits neighbouring homes

Travel warning: SH5 blocked in both directions after truck crash near Waipunga

Review: Rising stars shine in New Zealand Opera School’s Great Opera Moments concert

Plans lodged for one of Hawke’s Bay’s biggest retirement villages

Back-to-school journeys: Parents share travel tips

Family's desperate wait as police search for man missing in raging floods

Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of January 19 - 25

'Absolute menace': Man repeatedly phoned woman and made sex noises, sent explicit videos

'Thriving city': How Tauranga is racing up the city population rankings

Pair feared missing after slip still unaccounted for

Plans lodged for one of Hawke’s Bay’s biggest retirement villages

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Family's desperate wait as police search for man missing in raging floods

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