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Severe weather continues in North Island: What you need to know

Landslips, road closures, homes and businesses flooded and more heavy rain on the way. Here is what you need to know as the severe weather continues.

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Auckland floods: Residents take stock after extreme downpours

Aucklanders begin cleaning up as the threat of further wild weather lingers

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Death toll rises as New Zealand hit by heavy rain and landslides

Auckland - New Zealand’s largest city of 1.6 million people - remained under a state of emergency on Sunday

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Why the north and east have had such a dreadful summer

Oceans are at their warmest state ever and that has consequences, Kevin Trenberth writes

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Deputy PM on flooding response: ‘We do have each other's backs’

The priority is making sure Aucklanders are safe, Carmel Sepuloni says.

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Auckland floods: even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters

We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth of rain in 24 hours, there are many things…

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New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day

New Zealand's death toll from heavy rain rose to four on Sunday as flash floods and landslides on the north island continued for a third day.

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Flooding death toll rises to four

The body of a man swept away by floodwaters in Onewhero has been found

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Auckland ‘clobbered’ with record-breaking downpour and massive floods

Rain that would typically fall in the course of a summer fell in a single day, weather agencies say

The Independent UK

NBL Breakers clinch play-offs, beat United

New Zealand Breakers have overcome a slow start to triumph over Melbourne United 80-74 in Auckland and keep their chase for a top-two NBL finish alive.

AAP

Three dead after torrential rain, flash floods inundate Auckland

Torrential rains that battered parts of Auckland marked the wettest day ever recorded in the region.

Al Jazeera

Three dead, one missing after record rain in New Zealand

Record levels of torrential rain in Auckland left three dead with a fourth person missing, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Saturday after flooding devastated the country's largest city.

Bangkok Post

The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come

Until New Zealand's stormwater drain system adapts to our rising climate, it will never be able to cope with the level of flooding seen in Auckland on Friday night, writes James Renwick.

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Check In On Ur Kiwi Mates ’Cos Auckland Is Copping Massive Floods RN With 2 Deaths Confirmed

“Auckland is going underwater and I can’t go home," one resident said from her car via TikTok.

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Three people dead and at least one missing as rain pounds Auckland

New Zealand's new prime minister, Chris Hipkins, says record rainfall in Auckland is as "an unprecedented event in recent memory", as highways are closed and water pours into homes.

The Conversation

The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change

The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the eve of the city’s anniversary weekend, was caused by rainfall that was literally off the chart.

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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins: 'Take care of each other'

Chris Hipkins has arrived in Auckland for a daylong visit to the city following its catastrophic flood on Friday night.

Reuters

New Zealand's Auckland starts clean-up after deadly flash floods

Authorities in New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, began mopping up on Saturday after torrential rains brought flash flooding and evacuations, with at least two people confirmed dead and two missing in the widespread inundation.

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The Guardian - AU

Authorities use GPS data to try to find missing device – as it happened

Experts are combing a remote highway in Western Australia after a radioactive capsule fell off a truck. This blog is now closed

Evening Standard

New Zealand city declares emergency after heavy flooding

A state of emergency has been declared in Auckland, New Zealand after severe flooding saw people forced to evacuate their homes, and closed the city’s international airport.

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State of emergency: Auckland floods 'a wake-up call'

The Prime Minister has gone down to the Beehive bunker to help coordinate the emergency response, as the Insurance Council warns that some Aucklanders whose homes and business are flooded face very hard times ahead. Jonathan Milne reports.

Evening Standard

State of emergency in Auckland after flooding sparks chaos

Residents in the worst-affected areas have been urged to evacuate amid a deluge that has blocked motorways, forced the closure of the city’s airport and caused a huge disruption to flights

Al Jazeera

State of emergency declared in Auckland after widespread flooding

Main roads were also blocked by the floods, causing long traffic queues on highways.

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AT concert travel muck-up: 'It's embarrassing'

Fans are describing Auckland Transport's plans to help them get to and from Elton John's concerts in the supercity this weekend as a fiasco with tonight's concert now cancelled due to the weather.

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Third person confirmed dead after catastrophic Auckland flooding

A third death related to the catastrophic flooding around Auckland has been confirmed this afternoon after a body was found in a Remuera house hit by a land slip.

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