People in the Kaikoura region are likely to experience degraded phone services for an extended period of time.

Steven Joyce has been charged with putting together a "business continuity package" for Kaikoura.

Defence Force sends hundreds of staff plus planes and ships to earthquake-affected south.

Three blokes in a 4WD have headed into big country searching out those needing help in the wake of the Kaikoura Earthquake.

Our photographers and reporters share some of the images captured after yesterday's quakes.

Source: David Kyle. Heavy flooding is effecting Wellington roads including main highways.

IAG, Tower expect claim inquiries to mount

Mid Canterbury farmers are on standby to take dairy cows from quake-affected North Canterbury dairy farmers.

Helicopters from US and Malaysia will help out in Kaikoura, says PM John Key.

Several cars drove past an unwell and elderly quake victim, dressed in her pyjamas as she struggled to higher ground with her walking

Share market investors are expected to be "gun-shy" and hold off from big trades until they believe the aftershocks are over.

The energy unleashed in the Kaikoura earthquake was equivalent to what could power Christchurch for an entire year.

Tourism leaders fear the image of New Zealand as a destination will be harmed by the earthquakes.

There are reports that a floor in Statistics House has pancaked onto the one below. Staff won't be returning for up to a year.

First a quake, now terrible weather: weary Wellingtonians return to work.

The alpine tourist hotspot of Hanmer Springs, usually a thriving, buzzing place, resembles a ghost town.

Freight companies are turning to sea to deliver goods to the South Island in the wake of the week's earthquake.

Thieves stole a number of firearms from a South Island house while the occupants were evacuated due to yesterday's tsunami warning.

Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a rupture of a northeast-striking fault t, but this may be a more complex event.

Scientists say this week's earthquake has seen parts of the South Island move 10 metres. GNS senior scientist Graham Leonard said

Little crime in Kaikoura overnight, but police now gearing up for traffic issues further north as weather worsens.

The first word comes of the fate of three cows trapped after yesterday's quake.

Richie McCaw, who has been airlifting stranded tourists out of Kaikoura, says the devastation from the air looks "pretty crazy".

Aftershocks continue around Kaikoura this morning.

A helicopter pilot says he could smell the fresh earth uncovered by the Kaikoura earthquake hundreds of metres in the air as he flew above the scene.

Marlborough Civil Defence may evacuate six more people from the Clarence River area this morning.

Tourists will be ranked according to need as the evacuation of Kaikoura begins.

John Key reassures the country that the government is in a good position to pay for the latest natural disaster.

There’s been another night of aftershocks rattling the nerves of residents already on edge after yesterday’s 7.5 Kaikoura quake. As of six this morning there have been 832 aftershocks