Dozens of international health-care professionals and emergency medical aid workers crammed into a small co-ordination office in Kathmandu looking for direction on how to assist in relief efforts....

Can earthquakes ever be predicted? This question is timely after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal recently.

A Nepalese man living in Gisborne has been moved to tears by the generosity of a man who paid for him to fly to be with his homeless sisters.

More than $200,000 has been raised by New Zealanders for victims of last week's devastating Nepal earthquake, the Himalayan Trust says.

Earthquake engineers often say earthquakes don’t kill people, collapsing buildings do.

A candle-lit vigil will be held in Christchurch Friday, to show support for the Nepalese community following last week’s devastating earthquake.

In the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake comes another deadly threat - landslides.

Incredible images have emerged of the moment a four-month old baby was rescued from the rubble of a building devastated by the Nepal earthquake.

“The environment is obviously dangerous. The view is there’s probably another 5000 bodies in the rubble. Children are just playing in that environment."

A five-star hotel in the capital city of Nepal has been accused of only letting wealthy visitors into the grounds and refusing to help.

Remote mountainside villages in quake-ravaged Nepal are facing a wait of days before aid workers can assess their needs.

Auckland woman Alicia Scroggins, 21, was having the time of her life in Nepal, before disaster struck on Saturday.

A New Zealand guiding company's team have all been rescued by helicopter from the Western Cwm on Mt Everest, but 17 other people were stranded overnight.

Acting Prime Minister Bill English told Parliament that New Zealand stood with the international community in readiness to help.

Lucette Dillon says she will never be able to describe the “pure terror” she experienced in Kathmandu on Saturday, as the deadly 7.8 earthquake violently shook the house she was in.

Hundreds of climbers remained trapped on Everest yesterday as rescue teams raced to mount an evacuation before supplies run out.

The first smoke of the funeral pyres was wafting over what remained of Nepal's magnificent Hindu temples.

A leading charity has warned it could be years before Nepal fully recovers from the deadly earthquake that ripped through the country on Saturday.

Three days after the deadly earthquake that claimed more than 3700 lives, several New Zealand families continue to wait for news of their loved ones.

Terrified Kiwi Everest trekker Elizabeth Farrington clung to a large rock for dear life as Saturday's avalanche roared over her.

A newlywed British couple ran for their lives and clung desperately to ice axes rammed into the ground to survive a terrifying wall of snow on Everest after the Nepal earthquake.

A Havelock North woman watched buildings crumble when she was caught in the carnage of the earthquake in Nepal.

Raw footage shows the moment an avalanche caused by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal hits Base Camp on Mount Everest.

At least 17 people, including five working for a New Zealand company, were killed at the Mt Everest base camp in Nepal by an avalanche.

Kiwis in Nepal have spoken of yesterday's terrifying earthquake and say the country needs help urgently.