Hail came down thick and fast just after Christmas, taking out entire crops in just 30 minutes.
At a yard in the South Auckland suburb of Wiri the backlog is sky high.
Fire crews say the blaze is under control and no one was evacuated.
The fire is believed to have begun in a stack of scrapped vehicles.
Donald Trump's second impeachment comes just days from the end of his presidency.
A member of the public found a body in a Tawa park yesterday.
An agreement announced today means Rio Tinto will not close the plant in August, effecting thousands of jobs.
Rena Joyce has been charged with killing Martin Berry.
The students needed to have already started their study in New Zealand prior to border restrictions.
1 NEWS has been told of multiple incidents in Poets Block this week.
"Expletives run through your head,” Waikato University's Louis Schipper said of the findings.
One of the organisers, Billy Te Kahika, told 1 NEWS yesterday the protest would be conducted "in peace".
Most of the costs went towards replacing the glass panels of the Beehive's public entrance.
Dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization says New Zealand needs to plan carefully and slowly the vaccine programme.
“It smells like diarrhoea, I can’t stand it,” a Foxton Hotel worker told 1 NEWS.
Jenny McGee, orginally from Invercargill, says getting the vaccine is "the only way forward".
Another person was injured.
The aim is to create temporary employment in ecology, restoration, trapping, pest control, fencing and project management.
The New Zealand artist's most expensive work sold for more than $1.3 million at auction.
An eyewitness heard two bangs before the vehicle went up in flames.
Police say that inquiries into other recent burglaries in the Upper Hutt area are ongoing.
Jahmon Wilson, 18, said he was lucky to escape unhurt.
Mawhai and Pip have spent the last year learning the tricks of detecting the disease that affects the majestic trees.
The 24-year-old shearer claimed the record for most lambs shorn by a female in nine hours.
