
Kaikoura guest nights down 80 per cent
The damage to Kaikoura's tourism industry from the November earthquake has been revealed in new stats released today.
The damage to Kaikoura's tourism industry from the November earthquake has been revealed in new stats released today.
Partner of November earthquake victim releases video of log cabin damage.
A 29 per cent chance of a big "surface rupturing" quake within next 50 years.
Houses dot an empty landscape, standing as reminders of a village that existed before the Japan earthquake.
The Auckland Volcanic Field will "almost certainly" erupt again, and a swarm of earthquakes will be the first signal of a catastrophe, say scientists.
The New Zealand Defence Force and Ministry of Defence must now find a new headquarters for hundreds of staff.
Thousands have reported feeling the two big quakes in Canterbury.
Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.
A new book explores the drama, the scientific puzzle and the human spirit of the people who live there.
The magnitude 4.7 quake is described as having a "strong" intensity, and hit 15km south-west of Te Araroa at 6.34am.
GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.
These sisters will grow up wondering what their big brother would have been like.
Breeding colony of 2000 seals north of Kaikoura at risk as part of SH1 rebuild.
COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.
Justice Minister Amy Adams' passionate plea to Bruce Springsteen went unanswered - the closest she got to him was on the big screen.
Watch live: For the sixth anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake the new Canterbury Earthquake Memorial wall is being unveiled today.
A group who lost their only children in the Christchurch quake feel failed by two Govts.
Nearly 800 people reported feeling the 4.8-magnitude aftershock that has struck near Culverden in North Canterburty this afternoon.
If ever there was a compassionate ground to grant visitors a permanent visa to NZ it is surely those who lost children in Christchurch earthquake.
Chinese parents who lost their only child in Christchurch earthquake are pleading with govt to grant them lifelong visas so they can visit children's graves.
Some Wellington building owners have asked for more time to test their buildings after last year's quake.
Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.
By Anneke SmithLOOKING BACK: Jim Moran and Raymon Barrett, the oldest and youngest survivors of the 1931 quake, cut the cake alongside
Scientists have ruled out any suggestion this morning's 5.2 quake was linked to the mass whale stranding at Farewell Spit.
Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.
The report into the effectiveness of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is unbalanced and misses the point, Minister Gerry Brownlee says.
An engineer's report raised safety concerns around some floors of the office block, months on from the Kaikoura earthquake.
The young son of murder victim Alexsis Tovizi is among scores of traumatised children in desperate need of counselling after last November's earthquake.