MetService wanted to issue the severe warning the day before the cyclone made landfall, but faced opposition.

The timeliness and effectiveness of weather warnings and the emergency response to the Auckland Anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabrielle will come under scrutiny in a coroner's inquest that gets ...

A spokesperson for Opaea Marae says they are expecting around 1000 people for the tangi of Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp. Kemp has being lying at the marae, near Taihape, since Saturday.

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