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Focus: Whangarei teen passenger sent pigeon message after two-train crash

When Jack Wise was caught in a train crash near Parnell, he quickly fired off a "p-mail" to his parents.

Focus: Detective Inspector Lew Warner on David Kuka's murder

Detective Inspector Lew Warner of the Bay of Plenty speaks to The New Zealand Herald about the murder of David Kuka who was killed in 2018 in Tauranga.

Tasman fires live: 'The risk remains high'

Prohibited activities include those where metal meets stone and that can generate sparks.

Nelson forest fires: 'Our home is not far away from the fire. Everybody's worried'

Terry Coleman, evacuated from his Whitby Rd home in Wakefield on Friday, has gone to a paddock on the Waimea Plain where the grass is dead but the beer is cold.Video / Mark Mitchell

Focus: Temporary supermarket set up for Nelson fire evacuees

It's really going off in a temporary supermarket of donated goods for fire evacuees at the Nelson Suburbs football club at Sachin Fields, Stoke, Nelson.

Tasman fires: 'Our home is not far away from the fire. Everybody's worried'

Terry Coleman isn't sure if he'll have a home to go back to.

Community rallies to help fire evacuees

Loo roll in the changing room, cornflakes in the bar:The clubroom-turned-free supermarket.

Focus: Insurance summit at Wellington

Wellington mayor Justin Lester and Tim Grafton, Chief executive of the Insurance Council of NZ speak at Wellington

Fireman fighting Nelson blaze faces 'unfair' deportation

Online petition pushing for man fighting Nelson blaze to be spared.

Focus: Firefighters continue to battle Tasman blaze that shows no signs of stopping

Civil Defence and Fire Services say there is no indication of the current situation ending as the Nelson-Tasman fire continues to burn.

Focus: Officials give update on multiple Tasman fires

The fire wreaking havoc near Nelson is burning into its fifth day, covering 2100ha with a perimeter of 27km. / Video by Mark Mitchell

Focus: World's longest waterslide rolls out in NZ for final time

Today is the last chance for Kiwis to get wet and wild as the world's longest waterslide is open for one last time at Bethells Beach this afternoon at 2pm.

Focus: Nelson resident's home narrowly saved from fire just beyond her backyard

Ground crews will continue to work through the night after Nelson residents were evacuated after a second fire broke out in Walters Bluff.

Focus: Wakefield evacuated; Pigeon Valley residents must leave homes

Nelson residents near Walters Bluff are being evacuated due to a new fire. Meanwhile, the town of Wakefield is also being evacuated after fire chiefs fears that a northerly wind is picking up and could threaten the town. Video by Mark Mitchell

Focus: Waka ama race through Auckland retraces 800-year-old Tainui route

If you see a trail of waka in the streets of South Auckland this weekend, it'll be paddlers retracing an 800-year-old route established by Tainui warriors.

Focus Live: Fire crews brace for at least 48 hours of hard firefighting ahead

Earlier: Fire crews brace for at least 48 hours of hard firefighting ahead

Focus: Endangered gulls found dead in Rotorua

The Department of Conservation are attempting to ascertain the identities of two individuals seen pointing BB guns at the rare gulls.

Focus Live: Dramatic scenes as Tasman blaze continues to burn

Earlier: Hundreds of evacuated Tasman residents are entering a fourth day of uncertainty about the fate of their homes and livestock as a massive blaze near Nelson continues to burn.