The company that let people live in a Wellington commercial building may face council prosecution.

Staff turned away from Wellington's Asteron building this morning after cracks found in stairwell.

The weather is closing in on a small Kaikoura township that sits under a new dam that may soon burst.

A mum and her two young children narrowly missed a landslide last night, watching debris and dust come down in her car's rear vision mirror.

Notorious Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in Auckland.

The Human Rights Commission has received 16 complaints about Brian Tamaki's rant blaming gay people for earthquakes.

The repair of Kaikoura's harbour may provide an opportunity for Westport's dredge, says Buller Mayor Garry Howard.

These graphics show how Marlborough's faults were set off one by one in the 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake.

By noon today, scientists had recorded nearly 5000 aftershocks from last Monday's big shake. But what are aftershocks and what can they tell us? Jamie Morton explains.

Confusion surrounds investigation of alleged illegal tenancies of an earthquake-damaged building in Wellington.

Defence Force truck drivers brave waist-deep water crossings, damaged bridges and overhanging rocks to get supplies to Kaikoura.

The only road into Kaikoura has been reopened to military vehicles after last night's strong aftershock.

Earthquake victim Jo-Anne Mackinnon was laid to rest with a hair raising haka in her hometown.

Dates have been set for NCEA scholarship history and chemistry exams, which were cancelled following last week's earthquake.

It may be months before inner-city Wellington residents are allowed home.

Looters leave Champagne, Christmas cookies and car parts strewn along quake-ravaged rail corridor.

Papamoa father Justin Cheyne has offered his 4-bedroom home to a South Island quake family to use free during the Christmas New Year

No place on Earth is safe from the force of Mother Nature but countries on the "Ring of Fire" are certainly most vulnerable.

A scientist has shared an up-close look at how last week's 7.8 quake hoisted up Kaikoura's coastline.

A significant cause of damage to commercial property buildings in the Kaikoura earthquake is a failure to comply with non-structural, seismic restraint guidelines.

As people flee earthquake-hit Kaikoura, an Australian woman has flown in to care for her elderly parents.

The people of Hastings are to make a $50,000 contribution towards relief efforts following the Kaikoura earthquake last week. At

Prime Property Group is standing by the manager who allowed tenants to live in a commercial building on Molesworth St in Wellington, which is now being demolished.

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

COMMENT: Having some of their money outside New Zealand is crucial for long-term investors, Mark Lister writes.

COMMENT: Three major shakes in South Island in the last six years, have highlighted how the enemy we are most likely to have to front is the one within.

The ruined State Highway 1 along Kaikoura's pulverised coast will be rebuilt - with the prospect that huge rockfalls will be bulldozed into the sea.

Yesterday's earthquake off the coast of Japan brought back memories of the 2011 disaster for many locals.

Wellington's Lambton House building was partially evacuated after a technician found a "potentially hazardous" substance in a lift well.

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.