New Zealand’s economy shrank in the last quarter as the central bank’s aggressive interest rate hikes led businesses to invest less and consumers to reduce spending. Official data on Thursday.

The number of people still “uncontactable” in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle that lashed New Zealand two weeks ago has dropped to 23, New Zealand police said on Friday.

Residents across the north of New Zealand are bracing for a rough night as Cyclone Gabrielle lashes the country with torrential rains and winds.

Authorities in New Zealand announced Wednesday that they had intercepted a 3.5-ton shipment of cocaine afloat in a remote swath of the Pacific Ocean.

Six new ministers have been sworn in at Government House this morning.

The weekly number of new community cases of COVID-19 has fallen again, to 10,589, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Damaged or not, all Auckland schools will have a delayed start to the first term of the year.

Aucklanders are waking to the sound of yet more rain over the already sodden city as the state of emergency there enters its fourth day.

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for Waikato, Hauraki, Matamata-Piako and Waipa in New Zealand.

Tauranga residents told 1News it sounded like a “tornado” others said they heard a loud “bang” when the home collapsed.

At least three people have died and one is missing after New Zealand’s largest city experienced its “wettest day on record” on Friday.

The coastguard building in Titirangi, Auckland was brought down by a landslip around 6.40pm yesterday.