Edgecumbe residents are returning to their flood-ravaged homes today.

It came, it was wild, and then it was over. Cyclone Cook has now passed New Zealand.

The Whakatane District Council has provided a full update on the area after Cyclone Cook.

8,500 customers still without power across the district

The road between Whakatane and Tauranga has been blocked by a major slip.

State of local emergency in the Bay of Plenty revised.

Aucklanders were left wondering if the big storm was a fizzer but others felt its force.

Multiple roads across the Bay of Plenty remain closed due to slips, and fallen trees.

Whakatane District Mayor Tony Bonne talks with Tristram Clayton about the clean up underway.

Properties being evacuated due to the extreme risk of storm surges due to Cyclone Cook.

Satellite images offer a dramatic perspective of Edgecumbe before and after the flood.

Updated information for displaced Edgecumbe residents.

A volunteer army has formed to help the flood-stricken town of Edgecumbe.

She says she rang to say the bank wasn't going to hold (made with funding from NZ On Air).

She says she called multiple times to tell them the flood wall woudn't hold up - Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An Edgecumbe business owner is concerned about finances. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An Edgecumbe business owner is worried he won't cope financially after a flood ravaged the town, evacuating all its residents. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The flooding in Bay of Plenty has bee classified as "medium-scale adverse event".

More than 300 animals rescued in Edgecumbe, including a boogie-boarding fox terrier.

Residents evacuated from dry homes in the Eastern Bay have voiced their anger.

Hundreds of angry Edgecumbe residents stormed out of a public meeting last night.

Some Eastern Bay of Plenty residents will be given brief access to their homes today.

Floodwaters or sanitation concerns, or both, are keeping Edgecumbe residents away.

A small number of Edgecumbe residents can go home today.

A breach in a stopbank of the Rangitaiki River was closed at 11pm last night.

A Rotorua Daily Post reporter and photographer go inside the cordon zone at Edgecumbe.

Edgecumbe resident Tyler Warren raced into the flood zone to rescue his dogs.

But motel owners are worried where evacuees will go once their Easter bookings arrive

Trustpower's CEO says under their flooding plan nothing could have been done differently.

Rescuers used jet boats to reach stranded Edgecumbe locals in yesterday's flooding