January 23, 2026 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 24 January 2026, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the news talk Zebby newsroom. This is newsfects. In
this update, a mark mang and Nui local believes danger
was visible before the landslide happened. Colin McGonagall told The
Heralds Michael Morraw he had taken a walk on Thursday
morning before the landslide and took pictures of the damaged areas.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
To the right there was a little mini waterfall through there,
lots of other streams, lots of other water coming through the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Embavement and engineer says potential landslips should be taken extremely seriously.
It's been confirmed two people were killed in a landslip
in Papamoa's Welcome Bay on Thursday morning. Slip risk has
closed both Papamaua Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park and the
Corimandel's Cathedral Cove Thams. Corimandel authorities have also warned of
(00:49):
potential future slips on roads in the area and are urgent.
Carton Auckland University Senior geomechanics lecturer Alan Stalty says cracks
in the land of a slope or a warning sign
of a looming slip. He says you can also look
at how the land is affecting other parts of the environment.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Walls will be leaning, trees, vegetation might start to be
off kilter at an angle that it wasn't at before,
and in all those cases you would want to call
someone to check it out and probably get away from
the property.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This week's extreme weather events of bringing back unhappy memories
for those affected by the twenty twenty three Auckland Anniversary floods.
It's been almost three years since the floods, which killed
four and cause two point two billion dollars worth of damage.
West Auckland is flooding. Chair Lyle Carter says seeing whether
events on the news always brings up mixed feelings. He says,
(01:41):
through all the chaos, it's been heartening to see how
people treat one another. Donald Trump's maneuvering to acquire a
greenland could signal an erosion of the world's nearly sixty
year old space laws. The US president suggesting there's a
framework for a future deal after backing down from his
recent tariff treat with European allies. Waikato University law lecturer
(02:04):
and Marie Brennan says Greenland's a strategic gateway to orbit
and a means to exert political and military power from above.
That's news. In sport, soaring temperatures for cast decline to
forty degrees have forced an early start on Day seven
at the Australian Tennis Open. Play on all courts is
(02:26):
set to begin at twelve thirty. Those featuring first stuff
include defending women's champion Madison Keys, six seed Jessica Pagula,
men's second seed Yarnick Sinner follows Keys on rod labor
arena optimism within the black Caps that another convincing defeat
doesn't mean their T twenty cricket series against India is
(02:47):
a lost cause. The host reached or cleared the boundary
twenty five times as they easily achieved their target of
two hundred and nine. In the sixteenth over of Game two.
In Ryepor, coach Pitterry Corbenan is putting his hand up
for the crucial turnover in the breakers overtime defeat to Adelaide.
(03:07):
In Basketball's NBL, that's Sports, I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
listen to news talks ATB on the free iheartapp.
From the news talk Zebby newsroom. This is newsfects. In
this update, a mark mang and Nui local believes danger
was visible before the landslide happened. Colin McGonagall told The
Heralds Michael Morraw he had taken a walk on Thursday
morning before the landslide and took pictures of the damaged areas.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
To the right there was a little mini waterfall through there,
lots of other streams, lots of other water coming through the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Embavement and engineer says potential landslips should be taken extremely seriously.
It's been confirmed two people were killed in a landslip
in Papamoa's Welcome Bay on Thursday morning. Slip risk has
closed both Papamaua Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park and the
Corimandel's Cathedral Cove Thams. Corimandel authorities have also warned of
(00:49):
potential future slips on roads in the area and are urgent.
Carton Auckland University Senior geomechanics lecturer Alan Stalty says cracks
in the land of a slope or a warning sign
of a looming slip. He says you can also look
at how the land is affecting other parts of the environment.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Walls will be leaning, trees, vegetation might start to be
off kilter at an angle that it wasn't at before,
and in all those cases you would want to call
someone to check it out and probably get away from
the property.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This week's extreme weather events of bringing back unhappy memories
for those affected by the twenty twenty three Auckland Anniversary floods.
It's been almost three years since the floods, which killed
four and cause two point two billion dollars worth of damage.
West Auckland is flooding. Chair Lyle Carter says seeing whether
events on the news always brings up mixed feelings. He says,
(01:41):
through all the chaos, it's been heartening to see how
people treat one another. Donald Trump's maneuvering to acquire a
greenland could signal an erosion of the world's nearly sixty
year old space laws. The US president suggesting there's a
framework for a future deal after backing down from his
recent tariff treat with European allies. Waikato University law lecturer
(02:04):
and Marie Brennan says Greenland's a strategic gateway to orbit
and a means to exert political and military power from above.
That's news. In sport, soaring temperatures for cast decline to
forty degrees have forced an early start on Day seven
at the Australian Tennis Open. Play on all courts is
(02:26):
set to begin at twelve thirty. Those featuring first stuff
include defending women's champion Madison Keys, six seed Jessica Pagula,
men's second seed Yarnick Sinner follows Keys on rod labor
arena optimism within the black Caps that another convincing defeat
doesn't mean their T twenty cricket series against India is
(02:47):
a lost cause. The host reached or cleared the boundary
twenty five times as they easily achieved their target of
two hundred and nine. In the sixteenth over of Game two.
In Ryepor, coach Pitterry Corbenan is putting his hand up
for the crucial turnover in the breakers overtime defeat to Adelaide.
(03:07):
In Basketball's NBL, that's Sports, I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
listen to news talks ATB on the free iheartapp.
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