More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

Three workmen were hospitalised after a gas pipe was cut at Massey University in Palmerston North today.

Police have pulled a body from the Waikato river after a group of people lost sight of their friend in the waterway earlier.

A Fire Service spokeswoman said eight trucks were at the scene, and they were notified of it at 8.30pm.

A number of other patients remain in intensive care and one person is critical, the health minister said today.

Emergency services are in attendance at an airfield in Manawatu.

An American tourist was hit and killed by a truck in Tauranga after booking a cycling tour while visiting the city on the cruise ship Celebrity Solstice.

A woman and her son-in-law have told of the "horrific" moment a day out with family turned into a near-death experience.

A van had flipped on its roof, a police spokeswoman said.

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has been accused of vilifying a Geonet scientist who spoke out about the need for a better tsunami warning system in New Zealand.

Emergency services say a crash on Redoubt Rd in South Auckland could cause delays for commuters.

An elderly woman and her son-in-law were close to death when a tree fell in Cornwall Park, an off-duty cop says.

TRAGEDY: Sixty-eight-year-old Bruce Smith died during the Sand to Surf event on Saturday. PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER 191116aw21bop By staff

Emergency services are attending the scene of a car crash involving 11 people in Christchurch, where there are concerns a fight could break out.

The family of an 11-year-old who was critically injured in a horror crash in Ngaruawahia had to turn off his life-support.

A 9-year-old boy in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is one of seven young people hurt in a car crash in Ngaruawahia last night.

A man suffered serious head injuries after crashing into a power pole in Waiuku, and three others were injured in a Glenn Innes crash.

A van fleeing police has crashed into a bus, which was carrying passengers, on Khyber Pass Rd in Auckland.

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.

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

On an impulse, Jamie Brosnahan and Jonathon O'Neill spent Sunday night in Kaikoura. The Rotorua couple were heading for Hanmer Springs

Wellington CBD is open for business, but workers should check with their employers before heading into town for work.

Two men armed with guns who tried to rob a shop were chased from the scene by a woman wielding a broom handle.

A 100-year-old woman pulled alive from the rubble of her farmhouse had lived on the homestead for 64 years. Margaret Edgar was asleep

Government forces including transport ship Canterbury will be mobilised to get about 1000 tourists out of earthquake hit Kaikoura.

The 111 emergency line service wasn't switched over when the Spark office, where the calls are handled, was evacuated.

A search is underway for six kayakers after kayaks and other gear was found abandoned on the flooded Clarence River just before 5pm. A

People forced out of their homes and hotels in Wellington following this morning's severe 7.5 earthquake have all found somewhere to go.

Images are starting to come out of Kaikoura where widespread damage and one death has occurred.