Floods
Cyclone Gabrielle: Families left homeless in Te Karaka
As the roads start to clear and the devastation reveals itself, Te Karaka sits in the centre of the damage in Tairāwhiti. It's a settlement inland from Gisborne, where families have been left… Video, Audio
The Week in Detail: Broken roads and brand new planes
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: Broken roads and brand new planes
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
AudioNews Wrap
This new segment looks at some of the major agricultural news of the week with RNZ's rural news team. Reporter Maja Burry chats about dragonfruit, deer milk, rural support for flood-stricken farmers… Audio
News Wrap
This new segment looks at some of the major agricultural news of the week with RNZ's rural news team. Reporter Maja Burry chats about dragonfruit, deer milk, rural support for flood-stricken farmers…
AudioAuckland deputy mayor details flood clean-up as cyclone looms
Aucklanders be prepared to get by on your own for three days - that's the advice from Emergency Management.
Cyclone Gabrielle is off the coast of Australia and could be heading towards New Zealand… Audio
How we need to adapt to big climate events
This is the short version of a complicated story about changing our lives in response to big climate events like the Auckland floods.
Around the motu : Todd Niall in Auckland
Todd reports from the city of slips, silt, shocking weather devastation and survival stories. He looks at the role of the New Minister for Auckland against a backdrop of constant criticism of the way… Audio
Auckland floods: Swanson residents blame new developments
Residents in Swanson and experts are calling for no more housing developments in flood-prone areas. The area was left under metres of floodwaters for the second time in two years over the weekend… Audio
Chris Hipkins: Auckland floods and "reprioritising" spending
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins talks joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about his first week on the job. Catastrophic flooding in Auckland has made for a challenging start. Also challenging the government is… Audio
Coverage of the Auckland floods
Kim Hill talks to Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, and RNZ reporter Rowan Quinn. Audio
Around the motu : Lee Scanlon in Westport
Westport is still recovering from disastrous floods which hit in July last year, when about half the town's population of 4,000 was evacuated and 500 homes damaged. More torrential rain in February… Audio
The Week in Detail: In Nelson, Christchurch and Franz Josef
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: In Nelson, Christchurch and Franz Josef
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
AudioWeather: Parts of Northland, Coromandel cut off by floods, slips
Northland schools and parts of the Coromandel Peninsula are inaccessible as flooding and slips have blocked multiple roads.
The regions have been hammered by gale force winds and torrential rain.
… Audio
Napier man in battle with EQC for help recovering from flood
A Napier man is in a fight with the Earthquake Commission seeking support to help recover from a flood that wreaked havoc in the city two years ago.
Paul Matthews says he had his own emergency two… Video, Audio
Nelson City Council faces $60m bill for flood repairs - mayor
Nelson is facing years of recovery and the council faces an infrastructure repair bill up to $60 million dollars after August's floods.
Floridians wake to devastion from Hurricane Ian
Floridians woke to catastrophic devastation this morning after Hurricane Ian slammed into the state's southwestern coast. At least 17 people are dead but US President Joe Biden is warning it could be… Video, Audio
Expensive clean-up bill for Marlborough after devastating floods
It will be an expensive clean-up bill in Marlborough - after the region took a hammering of rain two weeks ago.
The scale of the recovery is still being established - paddocks are flooded, there are… Video, Audio
Weather: Locals wade in to clean up Marlborough after storm
Locals are starting to wade in to the clean up in Marlborough as the region switches into recovery mode.
They're eager to get the ball rolling on what will be a long road back to normality.
Our… Video, Audio