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Farmers in the lower half of the South Island are battling blizzard-like conditions and freezing temperatures as a cold snap sweeps across the island.

Gisborne District Council's principal scientist Murry Cave has one word to describe the state of Tai Rāwhiti - fragile.

When tragedy strikes a school community, a team of experts trained in handling trauma are on call, ready to help.

Two homes in the Gisborne region have had to be evacuated this morning because land movement is causing them to shift. Audio

The emergency in Tai Rāwhiti is over, but saturated grounds and damage to roading and infrastructure following torrential rain remains. Audio

Data collected during lockdown is helping a tourism company determine how many people can safely enter the caves every day.

Gisborne property owners affected by Cyclone Gabrielle still have more questions than answers about payouts and mitigation.

A road has subsided and people have been asked to conserve tap water after a significant water main burst in Queenstown, causing flooding nearby.

Twelve-year-old Levi Sonchai Golaboski was taken off life support on Thursday.

Life support has been turned off for one of the two boys who were buried when a sand dune collapsed on Aotea / Great Barrier Island at the weekend.

The Northland high school involved in the death of a student at Abbey Caves had two other students suffer serious injuries last year.

A massive fire in a multi-storey building in central Sydney is now under control, but firefighters say it will take some time to extinguish and they will be there overnight and into tomorrow morning.

Education Outdoors New Zealand says it is working with Whangārei Boys' High School on the review brought about by the death of one of its students in the Abbey Caves.

Last week's double child homicide came soon after two other deaths that rocked the community.

The school at the centre of a caving tragedy in which a boy died has resumed taking students on ordinary school trips after a discussion with WorkSafe, but outdoor education trips remain suspended.

A Loafers Lodge resident says he only knew to leave because someone shouted from the hallway that the building was on fire. Audio

Some in the media learned the lessons of Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods, just as the emergency management authorities have done - and they made a concerted effort to…