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Aucklanders are managing to save enough water to avoid a boil notice, as silt and debris clog the city's main treatment plant at Ardmore. Audio

Parts of Northland are cleaning up after the soggy weekend and last week's huge rainstorm

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to legendary cartoonist Murray Ball as a kind man with a strong social conscience. Audio

Aucklanders have met calls to save water but the city's supplier says that needs to be sustained.

Aucklanders are not yet saving enough water to definitely avoid a city-wide boil water notice after the city's main water treatment plant was swamped with silt and debris.

Music festival attendees had to help others from being swept downstream in chest-high water, when the banks of the river behind the event split late last night.

A man has had to be rescued from his flooded car, a music festival has been partly evacuated and roads have closed in the Coromandel after record-breaking rainfalls.

A record amount of rain has fallen in Auckland as a deluge hits the upper North island tonight, cutting power and bringing down a cliff on Waiheke Island.

The oldest crocodile eggs known to science have been discovered in the cliffs of western Portugal.

It is disappointing some dairy farmers still don't have adequate effluent systems for their herd numbers, the Waikato Regional Council says.

A farmer and a family company have been convicted and fined almost $66,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent on two Waikato farms.

The body of a young boy has been found in a New South Wales river, while the child's mother has been remanded in custody on a charge of attempted murder.

The Environment Minister has rejected claims by Forest and Bird that new water quality standards covers just 10 percent of New Zealand rivers.

Opinion - Watered-down standards or unfair criticism? Dr Siouxsie Wiles and Dr Jonathan Marshall look at the claims around the government's freshwater plan.

US-backed Iraqi forces have pushed deeper into western Mosul, after punching through the defences of Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. US-backed Iraqi forces have pushed deeper…

The Green Party has announced a new policy that it says will keep water in aquifers safe from pollution and contamination.

Opinion - Following the announcement of new water standards by Environment Minister Nick Smith, Toby Morris wades into the debate.

The government has weakened the threshold for what qualifies as the best quality waterway to swim in as part of its target to make 90 percent of New Zealand's rivers swimmable by 2040.

A Hamilton-based chemical cleaning company has been fined $39,000 after toxic chemicals got into Paeroa's stormwater system.