Women are being branded an untapped resource in filling the national trades shortage, as a new company seeks to get women into the construction industry.

Canterbury Civil Defence hopes to reopen one lane of the Inland Rd into Kaikoura tomorrow afternoon.

More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

Holidaymakers are being urged not to write post-quake Kaikoura off as a destination.

Several hundred people have gathered to pay their respects to Kaikoura man Louis Edgar, who perished in last week's earthquake, is to be held this afternoon.

The state house where John Key famously grew up is being sold by the Government.

Wanted man using social media to avoid police, says detective.

A mum and her two young children narrowly missed a landslide last night, watching debris and dust come down in her car's rear vision mirror.

Mt Lyford residents have limited use of Kaikoura's Inland Rd.

Residents south of Kaikoura in Goose Bay have been told to be prepared to be gone for at least 10 days while Civil Defence monitors a quake landslide upstream.

Three young children have been treated in hospital for potentially-deadly meningococcal disease.

A stream of bubbles is rising out of the sea around the Kaikoura peninsula as newly formed cracks in the seabed release gases into the water.

People affected by the current earthquake sequence are being urged to take extra care of themselves.

Calls to mental health helplines have spiked since the Kaikoura Earthquake.

Defence Force truck drivers brave waist-deep water crossings, damaged bridges and overhanging rocks to get supplies to Kaikoura.

Dates have been set for NCEA scholarship history and chemistry exams, which were cancelled following last week's earthquake.

A person has died after an incident in Lyttelton Harbour, though police cannot say yet what happened.

A significant cause of damage to commercial property buildings in the Kaikoura earthquake is a failure to comply with non-structural, seismic restraint guidelines.

Hundreds of people turned out to farewell Jo-Anne Mackinnon, who died in last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Mackinnon's funeral

Tears trickle down the faces of Kaikoura quake victims as they realise how long the road to recovery stretches before them.

Civil Defence has "serious concerns" for the safety of anyone in or near the Conway River.

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.

"It's really frustrating. We've been up and down the road since the quake happened, we know the risk. We don't need this cordon and convoy."

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has been accused of vilifying a Geonet scientist who spoke out about the need for a better tsunami warning system in New Zealand.

Gravestones and memorial pillars have toppled in earthquake-battered Waiau's local cemetery.

A new video of the Kekerengu Fault shows the shocking damage caused by last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake on the landscape.

WATCH: Skateboarders went for an adventure on quake ravaged roads but nearly lost a board into the bowels of the Earth.

It's time to reach for the sunblock and head to the beach with the country set to swelter in 30C temperatures.

John Key said the cost of the earthquake and any resultant economic hits could affect the ability to offer a tax cut programme in the short term