The damage to the Great Barrier Reef is still to be assessed.

Reports of injuries - and possibly deaths - were expected overnight in Queensland.

While other areas were evacuated, Hamilton Island residents are forced to bunker down.

The tsunami is comparable with some of the biggest events in recent history.

People who have experienced accidents are better prepared for disaster, a new study finds.

Huge swirling grey clouds are seen, capturing the immense power of Cyclone Debbie.

Cyclone Debbie brings scary prediction on future destruction of cyclones in Australia.

Cyclone Debbie has claimed its first life as evacuations are underway in Queensland.

Labour and Greens are releasing a set of economic promises today.

The impact quakes can have on city structures has been made frighteningly clear over recent years.

Quake-damaged pipes in Wellington are leaking around a million litres of water every day.

The EQC said people affected by last week's storms have three months to lodge a claim.

Scientists have put a recent spate of Central North Island quakes down to long-term tectonic "stretching" rather than worrying volcanic activity.

A National MP who challenged Brian Tamaki's "gay" earthquake slur is to resign.

A new book explores the drama, the scientific puzzle and the human spirit of the people who live there.

A year ago today tropical Cyclone Winston thrashed its way through Fiji. The Herald looks back at the disaster - and the people who survived it.

A group who lost their only children in the Christchurch quake feel failed by two Govts.

Airbus is making a play to replace NZ's ageing Hercules by showing off its big military airlifter this week in a bid to woo the public and Defence chiefs.

Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.

Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.

Suncorp Group's New Zealand insurance units posted a 57 per cent decline in first-half profit.

There was nothing unusual about the late-night 5.1 quake that shook Marlborough and the lower North Island on Wednesday, says a scientist.

International scientists have claimed the 7.8 Kaikoura quake has raised the potential threat of another large NZ event - but a Kiwi scientist says that's unlikely.

A woman took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods - she still survived.

Four quakes of magnitude 5.2 and higher struck near the hill town of Amatrice, 100km northeast of Rome.

A West Coast Civil Defence warning of a possible big earthquake on the Coast was a "misinterpretation of the facts" caused by lack of training and understanding, says an independent report.

COMMENT: Cash donations to transparent and accountable Kiwi NGOs is the best way to make money count.

The world could be set to end in October this year, when a giant mysterious planet collides with our own - according to a conspiracy theorist.

Steve Braunias looks back on a year of thinking dangerously.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with the burglary of a Christchurch home during the tsunami evacuation early on November 14.