Associated Press
New Zealand needs to rebuild for weather resilience, PM says
After last week’s damaging cyclone, New Zealand needs to rebuild with more resilient infrastructure to cope with more frequent and intense weather events, the prime minister said Tuesday. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has described Cyclone Gabrielle, which caused widespread damage on New Zealand’s North Island and claimed 11 lives, as the country’s most damaging natural disaster in at least a generation. The cyclone followed another storm two weeks earlier that swamped New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, and killed four people.