One of the victims of the deadly Mount Maunganui landslide has been formally identified, on what would have been his 16th birthday.

Scrutiny has again come on the 111 emergency call system, which still runs on an operating model set up in 1958.

At least 38 people across 14 states have died from a powerful winter storm that left much of the central and eastern US gripped by snow and ice.

Top immigration officials in the US have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving federal agents - including two recent fatal shootings - later contradicted by evidence, Reuters reports.