Heritage building owners are struggling financially, unable to upgrade their places, breaching banking covenants and forced to sell properties cheaply, says a landlord.

Feeling rattled? A series of earthquakes have shaken the lower North Island this morning.

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.

A Christchurch couple's red zoned house will be auctioned tonight with a $1 reserve, but buyers have so far shown little interest.

The lower North Island has been rocked by a second sizable earthquake today.

The world is turning to New Zealand's most threatening fault to better understand the levers that cause catastrophic earthquakes.

Department of Conservation staff on Raoul Island have escaped uninjured following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of the island this morning.

The Earthquake Commission has been able to increase its reinsurance cover after securing better terms in its latest annual round of negotiations.

Labour has promised to set up a special Earthquake Court to deal with unresolved insurance claims from the Canterbury earthquakes.

A 5.1 magnitude quake that struck near Ohakune has been felt widely in the lower North Island and the top of the South Island.

A magnitude 5 earthquake has been recorded 50km west of Te Anau.

The civil engineer behind Christchurch's CTV building is no longer under investigation - after an inquiry was dropped upon legal advice.

It's one of NZ's biggest natural disaster risk zones. Now scientists hope to know more about a rare quake phenomenon happening off the North Island's Poverty Bay.

A quake registering 4.0 on the Richter Scale has been felt in Christchurch.

A strong, deep earthquake near Fiji has caused New Zealand's earthquake sensors to register a swarm of earthquakes off the east coast of the North Island.

Another strong aftershock has rattled Solomon Islands early this morning, following yesterday's 7.6 quake that's compounded flood misery in the country.