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Friday’s changing – your early weekend forecast
A low pressure system is moving from west to east across the lower South Island, while a front moves off…
Decline of water quality blamed for erosion of ‘clean green’ image
The rapid decline New Zealand’s water quality is being called the biggest threat to our clean green reputation. Massey University…
POLL RESULTS: Half of kiwis working weekends
Well, for the second week in a row, we’ve had a dead heat in our poll – and the chances…
Week in Weather: What’s Been Making Headlines this Week
What a topsy-turvy week it’s been; both on our shores and abroad! We’ve had typhoons, drought, power outages and blood…
Hunua Ranges 1080 vote passes unanimously
A local board’s backing a move to drop 1080 poison in the Hunua Ranges, to protect birds from stoats, rats,…
Settled weekend ahead
It’s looking like our current weather pattern, sitting in between two anticyclone systems to the east and west, will continue…
New fault line discovery ‘unlikely’ to affect insurance premiums
Insurance premiums in Wellington are unlikely to change with the discovery of a new earthquake fault. While the Aotea fault…
Calm and settled heading into the weekend
This week is looking like finishing a lot more settled than it started – as an anticyclone currently moving across…
Iconic Wgtn sculpture hit by lightning dismantled
Wellington’s Zephyrometer sculpture has been dismantled before being sent to Christchurch for repairs after it was hit by lightning in…
Two islands, two outlooks for the 2nd half of the week
The past few days have seen some wildy fluctuating weather – from sunny and calm to wild and windy –…
