The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose to 11 as Poland's interior minister said on Sunday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the country.
US Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest on Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid.
New Zealand is to provide $2 million in emergency aid to Pakistan following severe floods there killing up to 1500 people, and making life miserable for more than three million.
A "full and frank" discussion was held between Taieri ratepayers affected by May's floods and the Otago Regional Council at a private meeting yesterday, chairman Stephen Cairns says.
Nearly six weeks after persistent rain caused flooding on the Taieri, the Otago Regional Council has agreed to meet affected landowners.
A group of Taieri upper pond ratepayers claim their lives and livelihoods were put at "unnecessary risk" by the early dropping of flood gates without consultation during last month's floods.
Unseasonably warm weather in parts of Central Otago has triggered the first flood warning on the Manuherikia River.
The estimated cost of fixing the damage to Dunedin's roads from last month's coastal flooding has nearly doubled and the damage to Otago's highways is estimated to be about $300,000.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will this evening hold a meeting to discuss last month's flood with the community. Mayor Clive Geddes said he had already had a debriefing with the council's emergency management team.
In a winter characterised as it has been to date by torrential rain and flooding, it is hard to be moved by earnest pleas about water supply, shortages and management - unless they are to do with how to mop up the stuff.
Whether or not there is a future for the Taieri spill gates tampered with during last month's flood is being investigated by the Otago Regional Council.
The cost of last week's flooding in Otago is expected to be millions of dollars, but the region's infrastructure seems to have escaped major structural damage.
A solution is being sought to the increasing closure of State Highway 1 north of Oamaru because of what the New Zealand Transport Agency terms "an unacceptable flooding risk".
The University of Otago's master plan is forcing the Otago Regional Council to look at alternative approaches to its Leith-Lindsay flood protection scheme.
The University of Otago's master plan is forcing the Otago Regional Council to look at alternative approaches to its Leith-Lindsay flood protection scheme.
Proposals for flood mitigation works at East Taieri need to be taken to residents "with haste", Otago regional councillor David Shepherd says.
Proposals for flood mitigation works at East Taieri need to be taken to residents "with haste", Otago regional councillor David Shepherd says.
A few remaining showers are expected to clear over Otago today, after another day of heavy rain caused surface flooding and road closures in North Otago and around Dunedin.
There's nothing like tucking in to a hot pie after braving winter weather to play rugby.
The 1980 Taieri Plain flood is considered one of the most devastating to hit the area and has shaped the level of flood protection there since.