The Green Party has released its updated drug law reform policy, which would regulate access to cannabis and allow for medicinal cannabis.

The most detailed satellite imagery showing the impact of the 7.8 magnitude Kaikoura earthquake on November 14 has been released.

The earthquakes closed New World Hutt City, so its owners have opened a pop-up supermarket.

The subsidy will continue for another eight weeks and extends to businesses in Hanmer Springs and wider Hurunui District.

Wellington's notorious weather has delayed the demolition of quake-damaged office building.

New Zealand is no longer under a tsunami threat after a powerful 7.8 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands this morning.

Solomon Islanders were violently shaken awake by a 7.8 magnitude quake this morning.

The earthquake-stricken Reading Cinema carpark building in central Wellington will be demolished.

Herald columnist Rachel Stewart, who lives just north of Whanganui felt the quake. "It was really loud," she said.

After an exam season marred by mistakes, the date NCEA students will be able to check their results online has been released.

New report out on Wellington CBD buildings damaged by last month's earthquake reveals who is worst affected and which buildings are shut.

Three weeks on from the 7.8 Kaikoura quake, companies are struggling.

A badly quake-damaged stretch of State Highway 1 south of Kaikoura could be reopened by mid-December, says Simon Bridges.

Canterbury's Highway Patrol is reminding motorists to drive with caution while the Lewis Pass alternate highway (State Highway 7)

A new satellite-based tool published by Landcare Research has provided one of the clearest views yet of what changes last month's 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake wrought on the landscape.

Nearly a dozen dams formed by landslides in the devastating Kaikoura quake are being closely monitored for fear of collapsing.

Rebecca Keats has reached out to Ellen DeGeneres to see if she can "use her magic" to help out a Kaikoura bakery after the quake.

Creaking metal and roaring machinery have heralded the end of Queensgate mall's cinema.

A severe 5.5 jolt that shook central New Zealand yesterday afternoon has been followed by a flurry of tremors overnight.

Wellington City Council says they will not be held to an earlier plan to recheck buildings after a magnitude 5 or above tremor.

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake has struck 10km east of Seddon.

National MP Paul Foster-Bell has spoken out for the first time about his sexuality in response to Brian Tamaki linking homosexuality to earthquakes.

The "drag queen disco" protest outside Destiny Church today was a great success, says the organiser.

According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

Amazing NASA photos have revealed new land off the coast of Kaikoura, raised out of ocean the by last month's 7.8 magnitude earthquake

Owners of a top Wellington restaurant could be left tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket from last month's earthquake.

The demolition of a quake-damaged Wellington office tower has revealed the extent of alleged illegal tenancies in the building.

Wellington will get its High Court back in the new year, but only once water and earthquake damage is repaired.

Kaikoura's fur seals famously splashed and frolicked in a pool at the foot of a waterfall. And then the earthquake came.

In a meeting with residents last night, Civil Defence staff confirmed two thirds of the village can't return to their homes just yet.