A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the lower North Island around 2.30am this morning.

A moderate earthquake rattled the Wanganui region today. The 3.9 magnitude tremor hit at 7.28am, GNS Science said.

A register of Dunedin's earthquake-prone buildings has been made public for the first time, but it is likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg, the Dunedin City Council says.

Politics playing a big part in questions raised by council offer.

A moderate earthquake rattled the Tararua District today.

Four years ago today, Cantabrians were tossed out of their beds at 4.35am.

Families of the 115 people killed in the CTV building collapse during the 2011 Canterbury quake are hopeful justice will be served by a criminal investigation.

A spate of small earthquakes around White Island today is not unusual and is nothing to worry about, seismologist John Ristau says.

The most powerful earthquake to strike California for 25 years has heightened fears that the state may soon face a "mega-quake" with a strength exceeding 7.5.

New Zealand's biggest general insurer has paid out more than $3.3 billion for Canterbury earthquakes damage and settled 58 per cent of claims.

The New York Times has named Christchurch as the second of 52 places in the world to visit this year.

A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan last night after lashing the country with rain and winds, leaving one person dead and more than 50 injured.

Lindsay Jones has no desire to knock down his 129-year-old church at the top of Queen St. But as things stand, the senior pastor and his congregation can't afford to keep it open either.

Only 10 years ago members of the congregation at St Benedict's Catholic church in inner-city Auckland raised about $2 million to lovingly restore their Victorian red brick church.

A heartfelt apology has been issued to the families of the CTV Building collapse victims by the structural engineer who designed it.

Editorial: It is easy to sympathise with Local Govt NZ's misgivings about Labour's plan to take EQC levies off insurance premiums and add them to rates bills.

Labour is proposing a sweeping overhaul of New Zealand's disaster insurance regime including shifting EQC levies from insurance premiums

Jim Anderton asks: 'Take a good look at the Cathedral as it still stands today, (taken from a helicopter on June 7, 2014), and ask yourself does this look like a ruin to you?'

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck off the Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, this morning.

The shattered lives and fractured landscape of the garden city provide drama in TV3’s new series.

For many people in Canterbury, the earthquakes of September 2010, February 2011 and later had little or no effect.