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The heat alerts will expand to 14 towns and cities this weekend.

Heat alerts have been issued for parts of the country, while others are facing wind and downpours.

Temperatures are forecast to top 30 degrees in many places, and heat alerts have been issued for several centres.

MetService said the heat would really ramp up over the weekend, with forecasts indicating 35C to 37C

RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team look back at the kaupapa and the people that shook Te Ao Māori in 2025.

FENZ responded to more than 100 weather-related callouts today around Auckland, with the harbour bridge now reopen after closing due to high winds.

A charity screening children for sight and hearing problems at schools now has a fully kitted-out optometry bus - and big plans to roll the service out for adults.

A calmer day is in store for parts of the South Island battered on Saturday by hail, and lashed by torrential downpours and lightning.

National Secretary for Apex, Deborah Powell told Checkpoint it is not uncommon for samples to get stuck somewhere that they shouldn't. Audio

A retired Waikato couple who worked at Hamilton's hospital for more than six decades between them face a lengthy wait for tens of thousands of dollars. Audio

Rangatira Marae was demolished this year after Cyclone Gabrielle devastated it in 2023.

A new study has found more than half the country's heart specialists are currently over 50, and nearly one in five is older than 60.

Rubbish left outside the transfer station has cost ratepayers $570,000.

The cost of transitioning land in Tai Rāwhiti was initially estimated to need $200m of government funding, however the figure has grown to nearly double that.

Pharmacists reported hundreds problems with prescriptions in just a week. Audio

The Integrated Data Infrastructure system - run by Stats NZ - is hard to use and badly in need of an upgrade, say experts who rely on the data.

Hundreds of people will this week commemorate the loss, arrest and deportation of their ancestors in a siege that took place 160 years ago on Waerenga-A-Hika near Gisborne. Over five... Audio

But police say they have identified several people involved that could lead to confrontations or violence among supporters.

MetService has issued a series of alerts, including an orange heavy rain warning for the Bay of Plenty and parts of Gisborne.

"I very much apologise for not being able to give people that information," says the man in charge of the emergency response during the deadly cyclone.

Some parts of the country were expected to crack the 30°C today, but there are rain clouds on the horizon.