Strengthening Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management sets out the Government’s overarching vision to strengthen New Zealand’s emergency management system over the next five years.

A number of reports have revealed major failings in New Zealand's emergency management systems, which put hundreds of people's lives at risk during the North Island weather-events early in 2023.

The north of New Zealand's South Island was bracing for more heavy rains on Thursday, with a few homes evacuated and local authorities warning of landslides and surface flooding. New Zealand's Nelson ...

The Government has agreed in principle to an investment and implementation roadmap to strengthen New Zealand's emergency management system so it can ...

The top of both islands are once more in the firing line of an atmospheric river, with South Island emergency officials ...

WELLINGTON — New Zealand declared a national state of emergency for only the third time in its history on Tuesday as Cyclone Gabrielle caused widespread flooding, landslides and huge ocean swells, ...

An agreement signed today between New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the United States’ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will strengthen global emergency ...

New Zealand will move out of a state of emergency on Tuesday as the country starts to recover from damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle last month, Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty ...

New Zealand’s two previous states of emergency were declared in 2020, near the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in 2011 after an earthquake struck Christchurch, its second-largest city ...

New Zealand was blasted with heavy rain over the weekend. The country lifted a state of emergency declaration after a storm did not turn out as bad as feared.

Get in-depth understanding of emergency management issues. With the Master of Emergency Management you’ll gain in-depth knowledge about a range of emergency management issues, as well as practices and ...