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Local Government NZ fundraising for cyclone recovery
22 Feb 2023Local Government New Zealand is today launching a campaign called Adopt a Community, where councils can start raising funds for the Mayoral Relief Funds of areas hard hit by Cyclone Gabrielle.
Local… Read more Audio
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Calls to review regulations to prevent trees toppling power lines
22 Feb 2023More households are seeing their lights come back on, with about 9000 properties still without power.
As the network is gradually restored, the sector says now's the time to review regulations around… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Question mark over future for flood-prone areas
In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, the question of whether to rebuild in flood-prone areas is yet to be answered.
The Prime Minister says he's not ruling out red zones for the hardest hit areas… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: 97yo man waited on roof for days for rescue
22 Feb 2023A 97-year-old man and his wife waited on the third floor of their flood devastated Esk Valley house for two days before being rescued.
Frank Desborough says he was woken at 2am on 14 February by a… Read more Audio
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Wairoa rural community facing massive cleanup
Wairoa's rural community faces a huge cleanup after Cyclone Gabrielle sent water and silt raging through their properties and across their paddocks.
The Army was out yesterday helping some of the… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 22 February 2023
22 Feb 2023Bangladesh have set hosts South Africa a target of just 114 runs in their final group game at the women's T20 World Cup, as the White Ferns watch on anxiously. Audio
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Vladimir Putin takes aim at the US
22 Feb 2023Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the US and the West, blaming both for provoking Russia's war against Ukraine and escallating it.
In a bitter two hour state of the nation address the President said… Read more Audio
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Christopher Luxon wants burglary, looting sentences doubled
22 Feb 2023With the country still in a state of emergency, the usual political scuffling between the two major parties is more low-key than usual.
As the Labour government announced the first of what it… Read more Audio
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OCR expected to rise 50 basis points
The Official Cash Rate is expected to rise by 50-basis-points today, up to 4.75 percent.
But the decision of Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr will be under the microscope with major economic… Read more Audio
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Rescuers continue search for hundreds still missing after cyclone
22 Feb 2023Search and rescue teams are still combing the streets for people needing help, more than a week after Cyclone Gabrielle struck.
About 800 people in Hawkes Bay and Tai Rāwhiti are still unaccounted… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Picking which roads to fix first
22 Feb 2023The big job of repairing the roads comes with big decsions for local authorities - which ones get fixed first?
The work's not easy, and it's not clean.
Phil Pennington joined major contractor… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Silt clean up a hazard
22 Feb 2023With the clean up effort in full swing, many are wondering how best to dispose of silt - which as well as being difficult to move, can also be toxic . Hawke's Bay Regional Council group manager assets… Read more Audio
