Homes were evacuated, floods covered districts, and slips blocked roads and took lives. RNZ looks at just how devastating last week's storm was.

Questions have been raised about the group's value for money and the behaviour of its chair Sunny Kaushal.

Police have named the man who was found dead near Warkworth as Tekanimaeu Arobati, 47, from Kiribati.

Spooky cemeteries, abandoned factories, ruined pubs and derelict workers' cottages all have stories to tell of Aotearoa's once-thriving communities.

About 100 people came together to mourn Sharon Maccanico, one of six people missing after the slip at a holiday park last week.

Alex Pretti was pinned to the ground, pepper-sprayed, disarmed and then shot 10 times by federal agents during a protest in Minneapolis.

No crew was sent out, but FENZ says it told Tauranga City Council as the owners of the camp immediately.

Communities are still isolated following widespread flooding and slips, with helicopters delivering supplies.

Two people have been taken to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital after a reported dog attack.

Margaret Batten, 83, suffered a fatal head injury after falling onto a concrete ambulance bay floor when a St John officer lost control of her stretcher.

The recovery teams are working in conditions that remain highly dangerous after six people were apparently killed in a landslide last week.

A scene examination has been completed at the property.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the death of a woman at a Clutha property, where a man was also found critically injured.

The government is standing up its Temporary Accommodation Service to help people displaced by last week's storms.

Daniel Miller declined to say if he understood the proceedings, instead demanding to know if Judge Catriona Doyle was using her full and legal name.

The red-eared slider turtles were taken after a large square hole was cut in the fence of the Cornwall Park aviary at the beginning of January.

SH1 near Geraldine is down to one lane after a truck carrying port-a-loos crashed, sending hundreds of litres of human waste across the road.