A veranda on a portable home has collapsed onto two volunteer firefighters and three locals in the small Hawke's Bay settlement of Te Pohue.

A glacier expert sounding the alarm on climate change feels like she's yelling into the void as yet another study shows NZ's glaciers are rapidly shrinking.

The former wife of a man killed in a shootout with police believes he was about to carry out a mass shooting with hopes of getting a "higher death count" than the Christchurch terror attack.