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The crash occurred on Lamb Rd in Pukenui shortly before 8am.
"A diesel road tanker has hit a road barrier, and we estimate up to 4000 litres of fuel has spilt," the fire service said.
Two others remain in hospital in a critical condition.
Connor Purvis did not return from his hike near the headwaters of Lake Ōhau on or about December 30.
Emergency services were alerted to the yawning void at the AJ Burkitt Oval at Banyule Flats Reserve in Heidelberg on Monday night.
MetService shared a picture on social media of the sun's 22⁰ circular halo, visible due to a thin veil of high cloud which covered the upper North Island.
The group allegedly took a number of items before being stopped by police.
The total kākāpō population currently sits at 236 ahead of the mating season, including 83 breeding-age females.
By early December, crews had completed the piers, columns and approaches, and fitted in the connecting span that stretches across the rail tracks
The cost of clearing blockages from Tasman’s wastewater system has almost doubled.
Marlborough District Council rivers and drainage engineering manager Andy White said the digger making its way down to the river and through the weeds was "quite a sight".
The patient information company said appointments and prescriptions in the Health Record function have not been accessed and the portal has now been independently confirmed as secure.
Sunshine State funds effort to repatriate New Zealanders who haven’t made it in the so-called Lucky Country.
Researchers are studying the link between one of the world's supervolcanoes and its frequent earthquakes.
