Emergency Services

Evacuees in Westport have spent a fourth night away from home as authorities try to work out where they'll be able to live long term.

Reporter Anan Zaki is in Romilly street - one of the worst hit by… Audio

The mayor of Buller estimates up to 100 people could be left without a home following the weekend's flooding on the West Coast.

While over 2000 people have been cleared to return home, more than 100… Video, Audio

Some Westport residents have returned to see the full scale of the damage to their properties from this weekend's flooding.

Many sodden homes remain unlivable, their occupants forced to doss down in… Video, Audio

The strikes are off and nurses are set to vote on the government's revised pay offer.

After hitting a deadlock in pay talks, nurses had agreed to three strikes over the next few months.

But late… Video, Audio

A portable pool is being brought on site to hold orphan orca Toa - as an incoming storm looks set too make sea conditions too rough.

The bad weather also put a stop to air and sea searches today.

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St John Ambulance is facing a 'code black', with the service at peak capacity. Respiratory illnesses and sickness in its own ranks is piling the pressure on too.

Last week alone there was an 11… Video, Audio

An Air Force Hercules has carried out a high-risk mission to evacuate an injured person from Antarctica.

The Hercules headed to McMurdo Station late Sunday night and arrived back in Christchurch… Audio

A Royal New Zealand Air Force crew braved the icey 24/7 wintery darkness to evacuate an injured person from Antarctica overnight bringing them back to Christchurch this afternoon. RNZ News reporter… Audio

A man's described the terrifying moment a car smashed into his home - ripping through the floorboards where they'd just been sitting.

The two occupants of the car died in the crash on Warspite Avenue… Audio

Fire and Emergency, dogged for years by reports of bullying and harassment, has its first ever woman chairperson. Rebecca Keoghan has been appointed by the Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti to… Audio

To Miami, where a sixth day of searching at the site of the collapsed seaside apartment building has revealed no further survivors.

There are still 150 people unaccounted for, while 11 bodies have… Audio

The prospect of finding any more survivors in the rubble of the collapsed apartment building in Miami appears to be fading following a fruitless day for rescuers.

The painstaking process has… Audio

The death toll has risen to nine and more than 150 people are still missing as rescue teams continue to pick through the rubble of the Florida apartment building which collapsed three days ago.

Slim… Audio

In Miami search and rescue teams continue to trawl through the wreckage of an apartment block, 24 hours after it collapsed.

Part of the 12-storey ocean front apartment tower in Surfside pancaked in… Video, Audio

Part of an apartment building has collapsed in Miami, one person is confirmed dead and 99 people are reported missing.

Rescuers are combing the rubble in the search for survivors and were seen… Audio

It appears plenty of New Zealanders turned to the bottle to get through the ups and downs of last year's Covid-19 rollercoaster.

New data, provided to Checkpoint, shows just how out of control… Audio