Northland

The man was stranded for more than five hours with little to no line of communication to the outside world.

The recovery teams are working in conditions that remain highly dangerous after six people were apparently killed in a landslide last week.

Three other people have been taken to hospital, police say.

Whangārei Mayor Ken Couper would like to see the district's state of emergency lifted on Tuesday afternoon.

Margaret Batten, 83, suffered a fatal head injury after falling onto a concrete ambulance bay floor when a St John officer lost control of her stretcher.

Temporary repairs to a washed-out bridge on Northland's east coast have restored road access to an area largely cut off from the outside world since last Sunday.

Punaruku's Ōtetao Reti Marae led the response to last week's storm, providing shelter, food and power to a community cut off by flooding and slips.

Whangārei Mayor Ken Couper says it could take weeks to fix a massive slip blocking the road to Ōakura.

Residents of Northland's Ōakura Bay say they could be cut off for days after major slips obliterated the road to Whangārei.

A precautionary state of emergency is already declared for the Whangārei District as large areas of the country brace for more bad weather on Wednesday.

Two men and a woman are accused of years of abuse against two children under the age of 12.

Harry Darkins, 36, had worked in schools across both Northland and Auckland.

The torrential rain sent floodwaters pouring through the Whangaruru campground and triggered a 50-metre-wide slip across the only access road.

Homes have been declared dangerous and new slips are dashing hopes of fixing a bridge amid warnings around the North Island.

A man died after being hit by a car on Puketona Rd, Haruru Falls on the weekend.

Conditions in Northland are becoming increasingly wet and windy.