Morning Report

The body of a person has been found in Gisborne flood waters.

Police say further details will be provided when they become available.

It is the fifth death death linked to Cyclone Gabrielle.

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Getting supermarket supplies to parts of the country cut off is proving difficult but not impossible.

Overnight, Countdown's supply chain team has been getting essential deliveries on the road to… Read more Audio

Waka Kotahi says travel to and from the Coromandel should be possible by Thursday morning.

A mammoth slip on Northland's State Highway 1 at Dome Valley may be cleared by Friday

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Cyclone Gabrielle is well off the coast of the country but her tail is coming back to flick up parts of the South and North islands. 

Metservice is forecasting isolated showers across the North… Read more Audio

Separatist fighters in Indonesia's Papua region have released video footage of a New Zealand pilot taken hostage seven days ago.

Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped after landing his plane in Papua's… Read more Audio

Dargaville and Whangarei were the Northland towns worst affected by ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle.

Evacuations and road closures continued yesterday as the storm's tentacles moved away from the… Read more Audio

There is growing concern about sections of Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti with communications almost completely wiped out by the storm.

Wairoa in particular is a black hole, with cellphones, landlines… Read more Audio

Thousands of people are still out of their homes - from Tairāwhiti to Hawke's Bay and Tararua on the eastern coast and Dargaville, Muriwai, Piha and Karekare in the west - as Cyclone Gabrielle leaves… Read more Audio