A military exercise will run until about 6pm Saturday (file photo). A military exercise, involving automatic weapons, is underway in north Auckland. The exercise, in the Riverhead Forest, is expected to finish about 6pm Saturday. "The exercise involves the blank firing of automatic weapons," police said in a statement. Some areas of the forest might not be accessible to the public while the exercise was underway, police said.

Source: Stuff June 14, 2019 23:26 UTC