The majority of severe weather warnings across New Zealand have now been lifted, according to New Zealand government weather ...

For more than a decade, passengers at New Zealand’s Wellington Airport have boarded flights below the figures of two giant, hovering eagles from the Hobbit films, one bearing a bellowing wizard ...

The city’s largest university closed for the day, the Royal New Zealand Ballet cancelled an evening performance, and several schools sent students home. Wellington is New Zealand’s windiest ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Severe weather warnings covered swathes of New Zealand on Thursday with heavy downpours prompting a state of emergency for the South Island's largest city ...

Swathes of New Zealand were under severe weather warnings Thursday with heavy downpours prompting a state of emergency for ...

Lawyers for Wellington City Council say councillors were given ... a "high degree of resilience" to withstand future events. New Zealand's public broadcaster, providing comprehensive NZ news ...

New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington was hit by the strongest winds in more than a decade on Thursday, closing schools and offices and cancelling flights. Farther south, in the Canterbury ...