Morning Report

Flooding and heavy rain has of course delayed the start of the school year for many in Auckland .

The good news is principals are expecting the big disaster of the last three years, Covid-19, will… Read more Audio

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is under increasing scrutiny for his communication during the Auckland flooding crisis. 

Leaked texts reported by the NZ Herald yesterday revealed Brown was still planning… Read more Audio

Bay of Plenty is one of four North Island regions with a red heavy rain warning still in place.

The warning became active at 3am.

Bay of Plenty Emergency Management director Clinton Naude spoke to… Read more Audio

A sodden Coromandel is in for another round of heavy downpours today.

A red rain warning came into effect at 10pm and will remain in place until 4pm.

About 73 millimetres of rain accumulated across… Read more Audio

Auckland Council says the city's storm water network could never have coped with the intense rainfall over the past five days. 

They say overland water flow paths are what are important when rain… Read more Audio

Auckland emergency management says the worst of the weather is moving south, but the region isn't out of the woods yet.

Duty Controller Rachel Kelleher told Morning Report there has been some… Read more Audio

There are also reports of flooding in Henderson Valley, West Auckland, this morning.

The area was among those badly affected late last week, and the saturated soils struggled to drain the latest… Read more Audio

We're also hearing there has been flooding again in Wairau Valley in the northshore where two people died on Friday.

Reporter Mohammad Alafeshat has visited the area.

He spoke to Kim Hill.
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National Party leader Christopher Luxon has been getting stuck in helping with the clean up from the Auckland floods.

In recent days he's visisted the emergency centres in Kelston and Sunnynook, a… Read more Audio

Some of the Government's most contentious porfolios will soon have a fresh face after the Prime Minister's first Cabinet reshuffle.

The ministers who ushered in the Three Waters reforms and overhaul… Read more Audio

While much of Northland escaped any signigficant damage last night, some areas of Whangārei were affected.

Northern Whangāruru, which regularly floods, was cut off last night - including the… Read more Audio