Northland

A lively lot of all ages suited up in vibrant outfits and donned their trainers to hit the ground running - or walking - in this year's Chilltech Beach 2 ...

Retired farmer Dave Davan died 26 days after drinking wine laced with poison which had been placed in his letterbox.

And I’m not gonna let them get away with it." "He doesn't want one to go missing. It’s a horrible way to die," Cridge said. He just said don’t let them get away with it. Conrad says the uncertainty has led to plenty of rumours and speculation in the community but said, "I need a conviction for dad". "They had an active barter system.

There was no access between the regions due to a slip on SH1 near Topuni, and multiple road closures in Mangawhai, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency said. Are you ...

Civil Defence advised people to move to higher ground if they were concerned, and recommended, as a precaution, that people self-evacuate in the Te Karaka township area. Other areas would receive 30mm to 60mm of rain. Stuff has had multiple reports of a tornado at Waihi Beach on Saturday morning. A thunderstorm watch is in place for Hawke’s Bay. On Friday night there were about 40 to 50 people at the Mangawhai Golf Course emergency shelter, although people were getting placed in private homes in Mangawhai and none were expected to stay the night at the shelter. Please avoid traveling on the road if possible and rethink your travel plans. [Esk Valley](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131278372/in-pictures-aerial-pictures-of-esk-valley-reveal-apocalyptic-scene) were ordered on Friday, although most of the houses in the evacuation zone were already empty following the cyclone. In the Waikato, Coromandel had been warned to expect 50mm to 80mm of rain up to 3am on Saturday, with up to 140mm in some areas. Gisborne was forecast to get 40mm to 60mm of rain between 8pm Friday and 6am Saturday, with some areas in line for up to 100m of rain or more. For Hawke’s Bay, during the 17 hours to 1pm Saturday, a further 70mm to 120mm of rain was forecast for the ranges north of Hastings, including Esk Valley and the Wairoa District. [Hawke's Bay](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300814264/cyclone-gabrielle-map-shows-scale-of-deluge-across-hawkes-bay) and were in place overnight for Gisborne and the Coromandel Peninsula – all areas recently affected by [Cyclone Gabrielle](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300813856/cyclone-gabrielle-live-updates-cyclonehit-regions-brace-for-more-heavy-rain). There were power outages across the Auckland region on Friday night, with most of Waiheke also in the dark, and lightning disrupted flights at Auckland Airport.

Authorities have managed to reopen a link for motorists driving between Auckland and Northland after yesterday's heavy rain caused multiple land slips and ...

Please avoid traveling on the road if possible and rethink your travel plans.” SH25, heading north from Gisborne to Hicks Bay is also closed in parts, while in Hawke’s Bay, the roads linking Napier with Taupo inland and Wairoa to the north are still closed more than a week after Cyclone Gabrielle hit. Motorists are also asked to drive with caution on SH2 between Gisborne and Ōpōtiki and Gisborne and Wairoa after major damage from Cyclone Gabrielle. That includes SH25A in the Coromandel, which sustained major damage due to a large washout, and a drive with caution advisory for SH25 which navigates around the peninsula and is still affected by slips. However, authorities have since been able to reopen SH1 in the Topuni area, with motorists advised to drive through the area with caution as there are still multiple slips, debris and fallen trees. That meant motorists who must travel can now use SH12 and the Paparoa-Oakleigh Rd to travel between Whangārei and Auckland.

Northland is absolutely not forgotten when it comes to the Government's commitment to the region's roading network, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says.

”It’s matter of how courageous you want to be,” Davis said it was not just a matter of looking to the Government for everything. Davis said it made sense that if these communities had electricity, supplies, water and other necessities, everyone in betwee n would also be resilient. New Zealand was just coming out of the emergency response phase getting power on, cellphone towers up and roads opening. The Prime Minister said recovery would have difference phases. Northland Regional Council chair Tui Shortland said Cyclone Gabrielle had exposed deep vulnerabilities in the North. Northland’s SH1 needed to be sorted, even if it came to tolls being part of getting that done, on a new route. Davis told Northland leaders calling for the region’s infrastructure to be sorted that there were serious conversations to be had. There were still places in the Far North without electricity, a dozen days down the track from losing power as the cyclone hit. “Drivers of heavy vehicles found to be ignoring the direction put in place as part of the state of emergency are liable to face infringements, as outlined under the act,” Hill said. She said roading had been challenged. The rebuild across the country will “have to include work between the central government and local government” the PM said. The Prime Minister said we needed to rethink the one-road-in one-road-out concept that we have in many regions at the moment.

State Highway 1 (SH1) and Otioro Rd, Topuni have re-opened after road access between Auckland and Northland was cut off overnight.

Meanwhile, watches are in place for Auckland, Waikato north of Hamilton, Bay of Plenty about and west of Te Puke, and Wairarapa. Orange heavy rain warnings are in place across Coromandel, Gisborne, and Hawke's Bay. Please avoid traveling on the road if possible and rethink your travel plans," Waka Kotahi said in a statement this morning.