Students across Auckland are being forced to find their own way to school as overcrowded buses are unable to pick them up. Video / Supplied

Artist Owen Dippie works on a mural of artist Max Gimblett, Auckland CBD. Video / Michael Craig

Focus: Fire and Emergenncy Port Hills fire live update.

Another long night for firefighters as Port Hills fire rages on, Niwa called out after splurging on luxury utes and Taylor Swift fever hits Australia in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald / Supplied / Newstalk ZB / AP

Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist School principal Lanea Strickland talks about the school's reaction to news its voice had been heard in an intensification decision.

Students and staff at Rongomai Primary School in Ōtara, South Auckland, perform a powerful and emotional haka for their principal, Whaea Paeariki Mataroa-Johnson, as the hearse carrying her casket drives out of the school gates. Video / Mary Afemata

Man fatally shot by police in incident in Matamata-Piako district, Waikato. Video / Alex Cairns

Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announces free breast screening will be increased for New Zealand women aged 70-74 as part of the coalition government's 100-day plan. Video / Michael Craig

MetService Severe Weather: January 15th. Video / Metservice

Christchurch firefighters battle Port Hills blaze, KiwiRail fronts select committee and what’s on the chopping block in Wellington City Council’s cost crunch in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZHerald

Police and Mayors Mauger and Broughton give an update on the Port Hills fire. Video / George Heard

Everything you need to know about Auckland's 11.5 cent per litre regional fuel tax coming to an end. Video / Alyse Wright

After 16 years with the NZ Breakers, Tom Abercrombie has announced his retirement. Video / BNZ Breakers

It took firefighters six hours to put out a blaze at a tyre shop near Kerikeri on State Highway 10. Video / Supplied

'There are currently four trucks and two helicopters tackling the blaze, with more trucks on the way.' Video / Supplied

Finance Minister Nicola Willis speaks about KiwiRail cancelling its mega Cook Strait ferry contract with the South Korean shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. Video / Mark Mitchell

Fire and Emergency firefighters extinguish a fire at a house in Parawera near Te Awamutu. Video / Jesse Wood

Communities reflect one year on from Cyclone Gabrielle, more privacy concerns for supermarket customers, and why fixing the 111 system won’t be happening any time soon in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald / Mark Mitchell / Getty

Kind-hearted Napier City Rovers footballers ditched their playing boots for gumboots and helped out with the Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up. Video / Neil Reid

Garry Foley and Heather Bates provided shelter in their ceiling for the Collins family moments after youngest daughter Ivy was swept away by flood rapids. Video / Supplied

Red Mole: A Romance is a powerful social and cultural history about a group of talented, unconventional, and political performers that this country somehow incubated. Video / Occasional Productions

A small crane truck has slipped off a boat ramp at Kennedy Point on Waiheke Island. Video / Supplied

Footage taken from inside the forestry workers' ute shows the tailgater's frightening behaviour. Video / Supplied

Muriwai firefighters Dave van Zwanenberg and Craig Stevens were honoured at a ceremony one year after their deaths during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Footage shows a mouse running around Pak'nSave Lincoln road. Video / Supplied

Flat Bush residents urged to stay inside after fire. Video / Gaye Fisher

Labour leader Chris Hipkins is questioned over his government's $1.2b funding to councils for the Three Waters assets. Video / Mark Mitchell

Emergency services were called to the bush fire at Waiotapu about noon.

A water pipe burst in the Auckland suburb of Remuera, sending water gushing on to the street. Video / Desley Simpson