Crews trying to contain stricken boat's diesel spill

Former Hurricanes player Chris Eaton is grieving after his wife was killed in a crash south of Coromandel Peninsula. Hannah Eaton, 25, was driving a BMW that collided with an SUV on State Highway 26 (Paeroa Kopu Road), about 15km southeast of ...

The Easter holiday road toll has risen to three after a woman was killed in a two-car smash south of Coromandel Peninsula. The cars collided on State Highway 26 (Paeroa Kopu Road), about 15 kilometres southeast of Thames, shortly before 9.30pm on ...

A 70-year-old man has died after falling off a building site in the Coromandel Peninsula this morning. Emergency services were called to the building in Pauanui at around 7.45am. The man was thought to have been working on the building at the time ...

A Korean woman who went missing in the bush in the Coromandel Peninsula has been found.The 60-year-old went missing yesterday while on a group tramp up Pauanui Hill.Around 5:30pm others in the group realised she hadn't made it out of the bush with ...

A period of thundery rain is likely for Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula as an active trough drifts south during Thursday. The Watch for heavy rain in Auckland has been upgraded to a Warning. This Watch is for the possibility that rainfall ...

A low passing over the upper North Island is expected to lie east of the Coromandel Peninsula this evening. The northwest gales associated with this low have cleared Auckland and Northland and the warning is now lifted. However, through Auckland, ...

An active band of heavy rain and thunderstorms over the Coromandel Peninsula is moving southwards, and heavy rain there should ease overnight Saturday. A slow-moving front is bringing heavy rain to southern Westland and northern Fiordland from this ...

Watch updated at 4:55pm to upgrade Coromandel Peninsula to a Warning, and lift the Watch in Northland. A trough is moving across northern New Zealand this evening, with a band of rain and thunderstorms. Heavy falls now falling over Auckland should ...

The vessel which sank in Wyuna Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula last week has been successfully salvaged, with no further discharge of oil or diesel into the water. Waikato Regional Council harbourmasters, trained in oil spill response, deployed ...