Southland
Facebook page seeks to reunite pets with families after Southland floods
A Southland woman is mobilising help to find pets lost in the Southland flooding.
Milford Sound businesses suffer as damaged road remains closed
Fiordland businesses are scrambling to keep tills ticking over as the road into Milford Sound remains completely blocked by slips, mayor Gary Tong says.
Southland flooding 'bigger than anything we've ever had'
Southland Civil Defence is focusing its efforts this weekend on reaching people hit by the week's flooding, while the Minister of Conservation is expected to fly over affected areas of Fiordland…
Southland flooding: Pets' stories of survival
As flood-swamped Southland slowly drains and reopens, some people's first thoughts have been with their furry, four-legged friends.
While pets were lodged in special animal evacuation centres, other… Audio
Mataura pulls together for big clean up - 'It's just what you do'
The mop-up is underway for residents in flood-hit Mataura, but it could be a while before some people can return to their homes.
Southland floods aftermath: Some homes uninhabitable
A state of emergency remains as residents and farmers in Mataura, Gore, Wyndham and Balclutha return to assess the damage caused by the floods. Audio
Southland floods: Evacuated Mataura residents can return home
The Southland town of Mataura has been reopened to residents after evacuations for flooding yesterday morning.
Southland floods: 'Everything is gone' - Gore residents
The swollen, brown Mataura River is still thundering under the road and rail bridges in Gore.
Evacuations in Southland
People evacuated from the Southland towns of Mataura and Wyndham have not been allowed to return home tonight, because the flood risk is still too high. Meanwhile hundreds of Gore residents evacuated… Audio
Southland flooding: As it happened
Dozens of farms are underwater and there are widespread highway closures throughout Otago and Southland. See how the day unfolded.
Southland flooding: Crowds in limbo as Gore evacuated
It's been a day of limbo for people at evacuation centres in Gore. Hundreds of households were forced to move to higher ground, or seek shelter at four community centres, as the Mataura RIver lapped… Audio
Mataura flooding - latest update
RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown is at a cordon just south of Mataura, which is about halfway between Gore and Invercargill.
Residents there have heightened fears about the possibility of a… Audio
Toxic ammonia gas likely to be released into floodwaters - authorities
Toxic ammonia gas is likely to be released from about 10,000 tonnes of premix at a paper mill in the township of Mataura, authorities say.
Southland flooding - latest update
In Southland extreme flooding has impacted much of the region. RNZ reporter Katie Todd has just been in the latest Civil Defence briefing and joins Lisa Owen live from Invercargill. Video, Audio
Weather: Thousands flee homes in Southland flooding
Thousands of people in Southland towns, not just Mataura, have been forced to leave their homes following civil defence evacuation orders.
Residents in Gore, Wyndham and Mataura were told not to be… Video, Audio
Mataura flooding: Potential toxic spill threatens as river rises
In Southland extreme flooding has continued to cause havoc across the region for another day.
In Mataura, halfway between Invercargill and Gore, residents are angry after the looming threat of a… Video, Audio
Southland flooding: Residents in three towns told to evacuate
Residents of low-lying areas of Gore and Mataura are being evacuated as river levels rise and people in a third Southland town, Wyndham, are being told they will have to leave. Audio
Mataura now a "ghost town" - reporter
RNZ reporter Tim Brown talks to Kathryn from the outskirts of Mataura, where emergency services have now evacuated, leaving no one behind. Audio
Mataura river levels threaten more Southland towns
Residents in the Southland towm of Wyndham are the lastest to be told to evacuate thier homes as river water threatens to breach banks. They've been told to go east, not west. Three days of heavy rain… Audio
Southland flooding: 'Need to get out now'
Residents in the Southland towm of Wyndham are being told to evacuate their homes amid rising river levels. Residents in Mataura are bracing themselves as the Mataura River approaches its highest… Audio
