28 Jan 2026

Businesses reopen as part of Mount Maunganui corden lifted

From Checkpoint, 5:46 pm on 28 January 2026

Part of the cordon has been lifted near the site of the deadly Mt Maunganui landsip, allowing about a dozen businesses to reopen for the first time in six days. But just a few hundred metres around the corner, the recovery effort to find those buried continues - and that continues to weigh heavily on locals' hearts. Lauren Crimp reports from Mount Maunganui.