Aucklanders are assessing any damage to properties after widespread heavy rain and thunderstorms battered the region overnight.

There is a 10% chance of Auckland suffering a volcanic eruption in the next 50 years and it could cost as much as $65 billion in building damage alone. The disaster scenario is one of several listed ...

Seventy years ago today, New Zealand experienced its worst rail disaster when 151 people lost ... tiny but growing nation when the Wellington to Auckland express, hauled by locomotive Ka 949 ...