NIWA's latest seasonal outlook predicts temperatures in all regions are likely to be above average from October to December.

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A witness to the accident in which a truck driver was impaled by a canoe says it was "swinging out on to the oncoming lane like a jousting pole".

The suspension of 15 striking laboratory workers in the North Island this morning was an attempt to intimidate them, their union says.

A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Whanganui region this afternoon.