Wild weather heads south: winds pick up in lower North Island; rain falls in Christchurch

Satellite images offer a dramatic perspective of Edgecumbe before and after the flood.

A forestry worker and a builder have died in separate workplace accidents today.

18-year-old builder killed in workplace accident on remote West Coast property.

Fire crews are working to free a person after a car and truck crashed in East Tamaki.

A 13-year-old boy has died after the stolen car he was in crashed in the Far North.

Time to get out your gumboots and umbrellas with wet weather on the way.

As the rest of Auckland moves on from Cyclone Debbie, houses in Kawakawa Bay struggle.

A Westpac helicopter has rescued a tourist who injured her back sand duning.

A vehicle has gone over a bank and crashed into a building north of Auckland.

Residents can return home once their apartments are deemed habitable.

But motel owners are worried where evacuees will go once their Easter bookings arrive

Flooding, evacuations and complete chaos - tropical storm Debbie brought it all to NZ.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council is concerned about the integrity of a Thornton floodwall.

Traffic is delayed north of Puhoi after a car and a truck collided.

Firefighters more likely to have fatal heart attacks as heat can make their blood clot.

A man has been killed after reportedly being thrown from his vehicle in a crash.

A man was winched off the side of Mt Ngauruhoe after he was "skittled" by a rock.

Neville Green meets the ambulance officers that saved his life.

A man was found with a serious injury on a residential street in Christchurch.

The last thing David Clarke told his wife was "I'm not going to win".

Four people are injured, one seriously, in a three-car crash in West Auckland.

Cyclone Debbie looked like "garbage" until one factor made a storm-chaser take notice.

Bruce Imrie says his wife Maureen, who died in a crash on Saturday, was his "everything".

Serious injuries after crash between truck and motorhome in North Canterbury

Thousands of Queenslanders have been evacuated ahead of Tropical Cyclone Debbie.

Evacuations begin as residents prepare for potential 260km/h-wind storm.

Dive squad to arrive in Christchurch to resume search for person believed to be trapped.

A person has been critically injured in one of the crashes.

Police to resume search on Sunday for person presumed missing after car crash.