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.

A strong aftershock sends fearful people out of their homes for the night.

The key remaining route to Kaikoura is closed and some residents are being forced to sleep outside after a strong 5.7 aftershock on Tuesday evening.

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.

"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

A car with four people inside drove off a bluff on Christchurch's Port Hills last night.

The daughter-in-law of the 100-year-old woman rescued from the rubble of an historic homestead speaks out.

A 106-year old lodge pancaked in Monday's earthquake, with its owners lucky to escape with their lives.

Wellington Harbour has been invaded by five vessels from the US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies.

New Zealand is in for a relatively dry day today with areas of morning cloud and isolated showers in the north, clearing around midday and becoming mostly sunny.

Thousands of central Wellington workers face an uncertain week as the clean-up from Monday's devastating 7.8 earthquake clean-up.

Some of the earthquake relief efforts are wrapping up in Kaikoura.

Rural residents are frustrated at being forgotten almost a week after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake shattered Kaikoura.

British woman Kaikoura Stuart has a message for the people of the town she was named after.

Statistics New Zealand has hit out at claims its quake-damaged headquarters could be demolished.

Peter Dunne has echoed calls from the public to strip Destiny Church of its tax-exempt status.

They've received so many food and water parcels, Ivan says he can't take a shower because it's filled with bottles.

They're relocating paua by the tonne. About 40 tonnes were expected to have been cut free from the rocks along the Kaikoura coastline by this afternoon.

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.