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'He was my sunshine': Mum says life without son lost in slip 'impossible to imagine'

This week, Max would have turned 16, a milestone his family was ready to celebrate.

'Cyclone Gabrielle was only a child': Evacuated East Coast whānau in limbo

Engineers and Earth Sciences New Zealand staff are assessing the unstable cliffs.

Sam Ruthe becomes fastest 16-year-old miler after Whanganui race

Tauranga schoolboy Sam Ruthe ran the mile in 3m 53.36s in Whanganui.

Long-time camping friends among six lost in Mount Maunganui landslide

Friends say Susan Knowles and Jacqualine Wheeler camped at the Mount every summer.

Walkers seen perching precariously above slip nearly two hours after local called 111

'I’m kicking myself, I should have kicked up more of a fuss,' says man who raised alarm.

‘Sorry is just a word’: The power of Rotorua’s restorative justice process

'Everyone has their voice by the end of the meeting. Usually they end in a happy embrace.'

The Mount Maunganui tragedy reminds us landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard

OPINION: New LiDAR maps show ancient landslides sitting directly above the holiday park.

‘Touched the hearts of many’: School community mourns staff member lost in landslide

The 50-year-old was the literacy centre co-ordinator at Morrinsville Intermediate.

'Gone': The moment a hero jumped into the landslide to save trapped campers - then disappeared

A local is in shock after watching the man disappear between a toilet block and campervan.

Strong winds and storms to lash North Island as soggy long weekend looms

Aucklanders may have to pull out the puzzles this long weekend.

'Where was anybody to warn us?': Camper blasts lack of evacuation before Mount slip

'I do feel angry about it, because there are people that are not going to come out alive'.

Buildings red-stickered, many places still closed in Bay after deluge

Highways, walking tracks, campgrounds: What's still closed in the battered Bay of Plenty.

Mount Maunganui search enters second night as families face anguished wait for outcome

Multiple families are in tears amid the heavy-duty search equipment.

Watch: ‘A lamental cry’ - Iwi say father holding vigil at Mt Maunganui slip has lost two children

"I met one parent, he was from Italy. He knows two of his children are still in there."

'People that should have known': Local says danger visible before deadly Mount slip - but no evac order

Tauranga mayor confirms reports of slips at Mount Maunganui from as early as 5am.

Six people still missing as Mauao landslide search heads for third day

Families held a dawn karakia as crews continued recovery efforts into day two.