Grieving cyclone victims say two years on, nothing has changed.

You just can’t comprehend it.” The fact that no-one died in Pākōwhai, which was hit by a mini ocean of water from both sides of the two rivers that surround, is in many ways pure luck. But it is also ...

Two years since Cyclone Gabrielle. In Hawke’s Bay, where the damage and loss of life was greatest, it’s been a long 24 months. So much work has been done, but the region doesn’t feel like it’s fully ...

Civil Defence says the evacuation alert system for Hawke’s Bay is more resilient and the region is “better prepared” for a natural disaster than before Cyclone Gabrielle. However, a flood victim says ...

When Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke’s Bay in February 2023, floodwaters swallowed Gray’s home in Eskdale. He and his family barely escaped, spending hours stranded on a boat before being rescued. When ...

After two years of major damage from storms, a key government unit has made an abrupt change to focus on cyber security over and above natural disasters.

An army of caravans and motorhomes has descended on Napier for the city’s biggest event of the year, the Art Deco Festival.

Napier has decided to close its only non-self-contained freedom camping spot, effectively banning vehicles without a fixed ...

And, were emergency services fully prepared to respond to the deadly destruction of Cyclone Gabrielle; which created so much ...

His other silt-ravaged paddocks can be seen growing sunflowers and a mixture of soil-healing plants. Wilson said the crop ...

A working cellphone can be the difference between life and death during a natural disaster.

A proposed housing development in Kerikeri could add as many as 3000 new homes to the Bay of Islands boom town - almost doubling the current 8000-strong population.