"We're nervous as hell", residents say as heavy rain continues to pummel region.

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A plane flying to Christchurch has been turned around twice by fog, while video shows a slip bearing down on a Nelson home, and a Northland town is cut off by flooding.

Housing density rules and Phil Mauger’s trench-digging antics featured at a well-mannered debate held in Christchurch.

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The suspended Labour MP faces possible expulsion from the Labour Party for continuing to publicly attack the party leadership.

Gary Giblin and his wife were sound asleep when police knocked on their door and told them a house on the hillside above had been swept down towards them in a landslide.

Some of their songs are about imagining that person they know in Blenheim “plus another 20% of stupid”.

Total Mobility Card holders can now take a member of their whānau, a friend or a caregiver for free on Auckland buses.

Road works which need be completed before the Showgrounds Hill retail complex in Timaru can open are still parked in the design phase.

After a slow start Taranaki rivers rose rapidly on Thursday afternoon with emergency services bracing themselves for continued heavy rain overnight.

As heavy rain causes chaos in parts of the South Island, banks offer financial help to customers.

Flooding closes direct links from to Blenheim from Nelson, local roads shut.

The sharemarket dipped slightly after Wall Street fell, but good gains for Spark and Fletcher Building provided some support.

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Rain continues to fall in Northland, causing more flooding and slips, after more than 100mm fell overnight.