Rain to spread across country as frosty spell ends for everywhere but Crown Range Road

MetService has issued the watches for Northland and Bay of Plenty.

Ukrainian drones struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries for the seventh time this year, sparking a fire at the Slavneft-YANOS facility in Yaroslavl. The attack comes as Kyiv’s strikes on Russian energy infrastructure deepen Moscow’s fuel shortages and disrupt oil refining capacity.