The winner of the New Zealand Beer Awards was announced on Saturday night and a small Waikato brewery came out on top.

The single-vehicle crash closed Auckland’s Southern Motorway southbound, but has since reopened.

Emergency services were called to the Geraldine-Fairlie Highway at the intersection with Slacks Valley Road just after 9pm on Saturday.

New Zealand swimmers Hazel Ouwehand and Erika Fairweather have won Commonwealth Games bronze medals just minutes apart.

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The Antarctic blast will last until Wednesday – with many parts of NZ falling below zero overnight.

The crash occurred near the East Tamaki off-ramp and was reported to emergency services just before 9pm.

Kapiti Coast resident Chrissie Blake said her husband’s phone pinged twice with the alert.

A small brewery running out of an old farmhouse in the Waikato has been crowned the country’s best.

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