Brace for bitter cold as snow and gale-force winds hit

Snow is forecast to fall as low as 200 metres while strong southerly winds of up to 100km/h create dangerous conditions across much of the South Island.

MetService says subantarctic air was being dragged north, resulting in "bitterly cold conditions".

Snow could fall to 200m in the South Island, disrupting travel.

A former footballer who scored in the Europa League has tragically died, alongside four others, after a wall collapsed during a storm

A FORMER top-flight Brazilian footballer has died after a wall collapsed during storm-force winds which claimed the lives of five people. Ex-Botafogo striker Tassio Maia dos Santos, 41, was identified as one of two men killed in yesterday afternoon’s tragedy in the hilltop Rio de Janeiro district of Santa Teresa as it