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.

Twenty-three Kaikoura farms have had no milk pick-ups since the Kaikoura quakes hit on November 14.

New Zealand's largest insurer says the Kaikoura quakes is likely to cost it hundreds of million of dollars.

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.

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.

A second baby blue penguin has been welcomed to Picton's EcoWorld.

Govt says a public message about unusual seismic activity under the North Island was not a cause for alarm.

Part of a mall now at risk of a collapse after last month's tremors is coming down today.

Tourism will weather last month's magnitude 7.8 quake, but Treasury is warning the total cost of the disaster could reach up to $3 billion.

The moderate quake, which was 24km deep, jolted Kaikoura just before 6.15pm.

A dream to run a surf school from a new seaside home is out of reach after the earthquake left a Kaikoura family out of pocket.

Information centre will help people and businesses recover after the November 14 quake.

The Kaikoura Earthquake will cost the Government up to $3 billion, the Treasury estimates.

There are now four buildings at Wellington's CentrePort which could be demolished following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

Lotto will be donating all profits from next Saturday's draw to the quake relief.

More than 5000 emergency bags have been sold since the November 14 earthquake.

"Gobsmacking" drone footage has captured an up-close view of a massive canyon created near Mt Lyford by this month's 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake.

Primary school children in earthquake-hit Kaikoura returned to school and a sense of normality today.

AUT and Colab lecturer Dr Stefan Marks used a virtual reality simulation to visualise the 14 November 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake and every earthquake in New Zealand since 1900. Source: AUT