Natural Disasters

Even so, they came close to losing out entirely when engineers hired by the Earthquake Commission, backed its orginal call that it was not landslide damage.

Adams Avenue between Maunganui Road and Marine Parade will be open to both vehicles and pedestrians.

Mahé Drysdale said any decisions on the future of the land surrounding the landslide will require conversations with iwi, communities, and people closely affected by the tragedy.

Tauranga mayor Mahé Drysdale has described the days following the Mauao landslide tragedy as "the hardest week of my life".

Several South Island towns were already on a list of areas AA won't issue new policies for. Audio

Auckland Council wants to increase the amount it can spend on retaining walls and lifting homes to make them safe - a move it said would be more cost effective than writing them off.

Six people died in the slip at the Beachside Holiday Park, and their bodies have now been recovered and identified.

Six people were killed by the slip at a Mt Maunganui campground, which led to a recovery operation spanning more than a week.

Auckland Council is looking at ways to make houses more resistant to floods.

Three years after the Auckland Anniversary floods, the community is working together to turn the Wairau creek catchment into something residents won't fear. Audio

"No words are big enough to capture this pain," Max Furse-Kee's mum said.

The 5.8-magnitude tremor hit northeast of 'Eua just before 10am.

Crews are on the scene at South Mole checking for any hotspots.

For seven long days there has been a sense of heaviness across Mount Maunganui, and it was hoped the vigil could lift a little of that weight.

There was three days of dedicated searching by authorities, but eventually it was Tekanimaeu Arobati's family that found him.

Philippa Wright says she, her grandson and husband Steve are "extremely lucky" to have survived a storm that laid waste to their township.

Auckland Council has bought over a thousand homes it's deemed too risky to live in, but some say the $1.2 billion scheme hasn't worked for everyone. Audio