This article originally published at Westport gets $95K FEMA grant as officials cite increase in floods: "It's happening more ...

Further area warnings have been put in place by New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi ... These additional warnings are: State Highway 67A ,Westport to Cape Foulwind – Due to surface flooding, road ...

Due to flooding, further sections of State Highway 7 on the West Coast are now closed. Road users should avoid the area or delay their journeys. Due to flooding, State Highway 69 is now closed at the ...

A third of the population in some regions is already exposed to a major danger, along with $235 billion of property.

Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly Niwa) has just released the first-ever national model of flood risk across the entire country, with a public flood hazard viewer so people can see their area’s ...

As conditions ease, the clean up is kicking in across the motu after trees were ripped clean from the ground, roofs lifted ...

"We've still got quite a number of hours to go until we're out of the woods." ...