Strangers have turned up at the doors of devastated homes to offer a helping hand Mangawhai tornado. Stories of the community ...

Heavy Rain Watches are also in effect for Fiordland and the ranges of the Westland District, primarily overnight Tuesday and ...

The clean up is continuing in Mangawhai with the council beginning to clear rubbish from the berms of the most affected areas ...

The Mangawhai community is banding together to pick up the pieces from yesterday morning's tornado. Two people were seriously ...

The family of a woman badly injured in the Mangawhai tornado say it is a miracle she survived when the second storey of her ...

A woman says her partner was seconds away from being killed when the limbs of a tree harpooned the rear of their motorhome ...

It'll carry 600 tonnes of logs daily on the Napier-Palmerston North line - lifting the load from 21 logging trucks. The deal between Ernslaw One, Kiwirail and the port follows the closure of Ruapehu ...

The storm in Mangawhai was so powerful that power poles were snapped in half and roofs were ripped off, leaving the seaside ...

MetService warns the wet weather currently covers Ashley Forest and is also nearing Hanmer Springs and Culverden. It's expected to bring heavy rain and hail. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in ...

Locals with undamaged homes were pitching in to help their neighbours, cleaning up debris, putting tarpaulins on roofs, even searching for precious trinkets.

A localised tornado affecting the Mangawhai Village area has caused damage to a significant number of homes in the early ...

Firefighters are continuing to check homes and properties in the area where a tornado affected an area of Mangawhai earlier this morning. Fire and Emergency NZ started to receive 111 calls from about ...