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A state of emergency was declared in Queenstown this morning.
Heavy rain has caused flooding, slips, and more than 100 people to b

All of the North Island can expect a wet weekend after the South Island experienced a 24-hour deluge leading severe flooding.

All of the North Island can expect a wet weekend, with significant rain expected for many areas, MetService says. This story was first published by...

Roads are flooded and water is threatening homes in the district.

Landslides and heavy floodwaters forced residents to evacuate.

It will be months before Mataura residents know the full extent of the flooding risk after discovering capacity issues with their stop banks.

The man in charge during states of emergency in Southland is urging people to plan for floods, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Alpine Fault earthquake.

The aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach. The smelter company will not reveal its plans for the hazardous waste, despite international industry guidelines it has signed up to that say it should. The government said earlier this month it remained "completely blind" about what contamination the closure of the smelter at Tiwai Point might leave behind. Spent cell liner waste cont...

Tiwai Point smelter stockpiles 100,000 tonnes of hazardous waste near Bluff beach 21 Feb, 2021 07:31 PM 11 minutes to read The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Photo / NZH RNZ By Phil Pennington of RNZ The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach. The smelter company will not reveal its plans for the hazardous waste, despite international industry guidelines it has signe...