Emergency services and council staff are helping with the clean up after a possible tornado ripped through suburbs in Hamilton on Thursday night. Tiles have been ripped off roofs and power lines ...

The Three Kings Civil Defence Centre in Auckland closed at 6pm this evening. Throughout the day, the centre provided basic shelter and support for 27 people displaced by the weather event. All those ...

MetService has issued numerous Severe Weather Warnings and Watches. North Island Widespread rain is currently affecting many parts of the North Island, with some areas experiencing heavy downpours.

Eight members of our community - who are committed members of Greenpeace - appeared in court yesterday on willful trespass charges after they scaled Fonterra’s Te Rapa factory last October and hung a ...

Severe weather warnings have broadened across the country with potential thunderstorms, 120km/h gales and heavy rain set to ...

Many regions of New Zealand will face the vagaries of weather ... and Waikato north of Hamilton. The forecast states that westerly winds may approach severe gale in exposed places and there ...

There have been increasing calls for more urgent infrastructure delivery and central Government involvement in the country’s biggest city. Video / NZ Herald Auckland Council is drawing up a new ...

Schools were closed and flights cancelled as New Zealand's capital Wellington was hit by its strongest winds in over a decade on Thursday while a state of emergency was declared in parts of the South ...

A New Zealand court on Thursday discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager ...

MetService expected five metre (16 foot) swells in the Cook Strait, the body of water between New Zealand’s two largest islands. About 1,000 properties were without electricity Thursday ...