“I’m satisfied we have got some flood protection options ... banks and badly flooded the town during Cyclone Gabrielle on February 14 last year. Wairoa resident Justin Maaka’s home was ...

Recent proposals involve sacrificing land and homes to do so. Linda Hall went to Wairoa and talked with an affected whānau.

A plan has been devised to unleash the Wairoa River in periods of heavy rain through land near North Clyde, fixing a ...

Another investigation into the Hawke's Bay's Civil Defence response to Cyclone Gabrielle ... legal action over last month's flooding of 400 properties in Wairoa, when the river bar was not ...

The community of Wairoa is one step closer to having much needed and increasingly urgent flood mitigation in place, with ...

Businesses across the Tairawhiti region are hoping to get the message out that they are open for business this summer after ...

Cyclone Gabrielle also struck within weeks of unprecedented flooding in New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, when an entire summer's worth of rain fell in a single day. New Zealand's climate ...

Social media footage shows workers trapped by flooding as Cyclone Gabrielle battered New Zealand earlier this week. The North Island has been devastated by widespread flooding and landslides and a ...

Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen says part of that could be due to Cyclone Gabrielle flood levels, and high levels of construction. He told Ryan Bridge that some of the biggest areas ...

Following the devastating impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023, $70 million of Government funding was ring-fenced to provide community scale flood mitigation for Wairoa, making it the ...