Survey after survey highlights that Kiwis are a generous bunch - we live in Godzone, and it appears we don't take our good fortune for granted.

2010 can only described as an annus calamitosus [disastrous year] for the New Zealand family.

A banker says the total cost of damage from the Canterbury earthquake will be nearly a billion dollar higher than Government estimates.

The Earthquake Commission's stage two report shows thousands of homes need to be demolished or repaired following September's Canterbury Earthquake.

Minor damage was reported in Masterton and near Otaki after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake this afternoon.

Plasma televisions, 45 Apple iPads and laptop computers are among the quake-damaged goods going to auction this weekend.

Comedian and actor Robin Williams is to donate the profits from his show in Christchurch to rebuilding the earthquake-hit city.

How are Christchurch businesses coping two months after the big earthquake?

Another aftershock has hit Canterbury this evening.

A "little swarm" of four small earthquakes near Taupo yesterday was not unusual or concerning, a seismologist says.

Demolition work proceeds on the Manchester Courts building, one of the earthquake damaged buildings on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets in Christchurch.