Natural Disasters

Detective constable Patrick Noiseux was swept underwater while trying to reach seven civilians. When he came up, nobody else could be seen.

The floods are expected to be more severe than those that hit in 2014, forcing about a quarter of a million people from their homes.

Since the rest of the street had been labelled category three, the Deacons' small community has essentially become a ghost town. Audio

A draft master plan proposes relocating Westport to government-owned farmland southwest of its current location.

A team of scientists has found "an extra-deep layer of the Earth where earthquakes can occur" beneath the region.

A Civil Defence controller who has led emergency responses for numerous floods and fires says its the people that have kept him involved for the last four decades.

The collaboration has seen 11 homes built at Ōmāhu Marae in Hawke's Bay 20 months on from the extreme weather event. Audio

More than 300 properties across Hastings and Napier were deemed Category 3 after the cyclone, meaning it was no longer safe for anyone to live there.

80,000 homes, along with fire stations, airports, energy infrastructure, and marae are also at risk from coastal inundation. Audio

With the main tourist route to Fox Glacier closed, a lodge owner has seen more than half of her bookings for one day disappear. Audio

Dozens of homes in Ventura County were set alight in a sweeping wildfire that burned through thousands of acres of land in a matter of hours.

About 50 homes are affected by slips on public land that have been left unfixed after the 2023 Auckland Anniversary floods.

Otago Regional Council is considering how to tackle a significant flood hazard risk in a Dunedin suburb.