WREMO NZ

Goal

Read the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office's public news and updates — the official regional civil defence communications channel — as structured data: listings with dates and snippets, and full article text.

Use this when

• A task needs current WREMO announcements or severe-weather/incident updates
• A task needs Wellington-region preparedness or recovery information as text
• A workflow monitors official regional emergency management communications

Do not use this for

• Live CAP alerts (use nz-emergency-alerts) or Emergency Mobile Alerts
• Community Emergency Hub locations (query the GWRC portal via wcc-arcgis-nz)
• Any account, submission, or contact flow

Commands

python3 skills/wremo-nz/scripts/cli.py news --limit 10
python3 skills/wremo-nz/scripts/cli.py news --search "severe weather" --json
python3 skills/wremo-nz/scripts/cli.py article severe-weather-update-26-june --json

• news [--search TEXT] [--limit N] [--json] — news items with title, date, snippet, URL, newest first
• article SLUG_OR_URL [--json] — full paragraphs of one article (site chrome stripped)

Notes

• HTML parsing of wremo.nz (no feed exists); a markup change fails closed with an explicit schema error rather than an empty success.
• News is WREMO's editorial channel — updated during events (e.g. severe weather updates) but not a real-time alert stream; pair with nz-emergency-alerts.
• Dates are NZ-style ("6 Sept 2024") normalised to ISO; unparseable dates are kept as raw text rather than dropped.

Resources

• CLI entrypoint: scripts/cli.py
• Contract test: scripts/test_contract.py; smoke test: scripts/smoke_test.py
• Markup assumptions and stability notes: references/source-notes.md