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Brief cooler weather promised as bush fires rage through three states

Fires burning across NSW

$344,000 to help islands

Fires rage in four states amid heatwave

Repair work on slip-hit road finally finished

Fire risk lethal as Australia swelters

Vast tracts of South Australia are preparing for another baking day of catastrophic fire risk after yesterday's 40C-plus temperatures.

Study models likely destruction from tsunami

Impact of tsunami on Auckland would be widespread but not deadly.

Small quake hits Marlborough

Tsunami kids to feel like Kings

One dead in south Auckland barn fire

Kiwi team restores water supply to tsunami victims

Samoans struggling in aftermath of tsunami

Slip strands Taranaki families

Civil Defence to fix tsunami failings

NZ 'poorly prepared' for tsunami

Samoan PM denies aid rort claims

Samoa's Prime Minister says journalists are making up stories of corruption and aid diversion.

Aussie drought helps out Kiwi meter enterprise

Elderly couple donate their walking aid to survivor