Photo: RNZ A woman died after being dropped from a hospital stretcher at Whangārei Hospital, a coroner has found. Margaret Batten, 83, suffered a head injury after falling onto a concrete floor in the...

Whangārei District Mayor Ken Couper and Whangārei district civil defence emergency operations centre controller Victoria Harwood. Photo: Susan Botting / Local Democracy Reporting Whangārei Mayor Ken Couper would like to see the district’s state...

Follow the latest in RNZ’s live blog above Work has resumed to recover six missing people after the landslide at Mount Maunganui. The victims have been named as Lisa Anne Maclennan, 50, Måns Loke...