Flooding and power outages have been reported in Taupō this evening as heavy thunderstorms strike the central North Island ... A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman confirmed the service ...

MetService has issued severe thunderstorm watch for the Central ... to New Zealand is low Forecasters are warning of potential for severe thunderstorms across the central North Island later ...

But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ... over a remote area of the central Pacific that spans 3.5 million ...

A 4.5 magnitude quake has rattled central New Zealand this ... south to Auckland in the north. Nine days ago on January 29 a strong 5.3 tremor shook the lower North Island. It struck 10km east ...

Fire crews are out in Taupō as they respond to flooding and vegetation fires caused by thunderstorms.

Forecasters are warning of potential for severe thunderstorms across the central North Island later today ... if a cyclone did form, New Zealand would likely be buffered from dominant high ...

Heavy thunderstorms could strike the central North Island this afternoon, MetService says. MetService has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the central North Island this afternoon and evening.

Severe thunderstorms are possible for the central North Island this afternoon and evening ... Minister Louise Upston this week added two new punitive measures to her already draconian “traffic ...

The Cook Islands was within the New Zealand borders from 1901. In 1965, it became self governing but in free association with New Zealand. It is a realm country of New Zealand, along with Niue and ...

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ... [+] ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian ...