A plan is being considered to relocate the flood-prone West Coast town of Westport. Westport has been repeatedly inundated by flooding since European settlement but that has escalated in recent years.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say rescuers recover 16 bodies from flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java.

A REPORT into the cleaning of a river in west Mayo has been described as 'bunkum' with one councillor promising a war if it is not cleaned.

The flood levels through the Buller gorge are incredible," he said. NIWA environmental monitoring technician Mike O'Driscoll used a radar gun from the Westport and Orowaiti bridges to measure the ...