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Severe thunderstorms have been detected near the Raukumara Range and are moving south

7 January 2026

They're expected to bring torrential rain, hail and lightning.

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28 Feb: One person's died in a single vehicle crash, in Te Kopuru, south of Northland's Dargaville this morning

27 Feb: A man will appear in Napier District Court today facing a charge of the murder of Rotorua woman Sharlene Smith

27 Feb: It's expected to be months before storm-ravaged highways on the Coromandel Peninsula are fully restored

26 Feb: An IT outage affected radiology departments in Auckland and Northland hospitals this afternoon

26 Feb: Two women will appear in court today - and a man next month - in relation to a reported shooting in Waikato's Te Kauwhata, north of Huntly

25 Feb: A 24-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to a fatal crash on State Highway One south of Taupo

24 Feb: A car driver's died after a crash between a truck and a car about 11am on Waikato's State Highway 2 - near Mangatawhiri

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