First there were "quake cows", now a lamb has been plucked to safety in Canterbury.

Emergency supplies have finally landed in a cut-off community just 22km north of Kaikoura.

This could be the perfect postcard of rural New Zealand ... but this rural idyll has become the Ground Zero of Monday's mammoth magnitude-7.8 earthquake.

A 27 truck military convoy battled poor weather and the threat of more landslides to deliver 8860ltrs of fuel and 10,000ltrs of water to Kaikoura today.

Farmers and the fishing industry get $5 million relief package.

The changes to the freight routes in and out of Canterbury have seen an 18 per cent increase in cost.

LIVE BLOG: US warship on its way to Kaikoura as aftershocks continue to shake the North Canterbury region.

Mid Canterbury farmers are on standby to take dairy cows from quake-affected North Canterbury dairy farmers.

Three cows left standing on an island of land have drawn international attention.

It's beginning to feel like summer in some parts of the country, with pohutukawa bursting into bloom. "People have been getting a

The United States and Canada were New Zealand's biggest foreign investors over the last three years.

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

It's been a disappointing season for sheep farmers but shareholders in Alliance Group - the country's biggest sheep meat processor - to look forward to.

An unseasonable cold snap will be felt in much of the country over the weekend as a front moves over the North Island.

Farming entrepreneur Colin Harvey has put his 6,639-hectare Lake McKay Station up for sale.

A weather balloon with cameras attached has captured a stunning view of Central Otago from the sky.

It should be a fine Labour weekend for most Kiwis, with a high set to arrive on Saturday.

A dog attacked his hens so this man used the closest thing to hand when he took his anger out on the dog owner.

A new Queenstown house has become a local curiosity.

Heavy rain is set to drench southern parts of the South Island. Westland, south of the glaciers, is expecting peak rainfalls up

Police are investigating after a milk tanker ran off the road in North Otago, killing the driver.

This will be a good weekend to check out the museum or cuddle up with a book as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the country.

Shareholders have approved the second stage of a major South Canterbury irrigation scheme.

We will find you and we will kill you - that is the message the Otago Regional Council is set to issue today to Bennett's wallabies that enter Otago.

WATCH: Dashcam footage shows a Coromandel road turn into a river after rain lashed much of the country over the weekend closing roads.

New Zealand wool prices generally advanced at the country's latest weekly auction, which featured the greatest number of bales on

A Lord of the Rings sightseeing flight crashed, killing the pilot, after he flew low to clear livestock from the airstrip.

Come November 5, more than 9000 people will head to the domain to watch, take part and enjoy the The Hororata Highland Games - the largest in NZ.

About 100 farmers in Otago and Southland were forced to dump milk over the weekend in the aftermath of the milk silo collapse at Fonterra's Edendale site.

Property values in one former gold mining town have hit the roof.