Some 28 full-time jobs have been created with the opening of a new $40 million hotel in central Christchurch. Read...

It was one of the most dramatic effects of 2016`s 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake: shellfish and kelp hauled out of the ocean and into the sunlight, along a swathe of uplifted coastline.Now scientists have revealed how the same process... Read...

Paula and Laura Finney set up the Emporium brewery in Kaikoura a few months before the massive quake. Read...

Argosy Property lodges big insurance claim for earthquake-damaged Wellington building Read...

George Waller was caught on camera mowing down a flock of protected gulls in his truck. Read...

A section of State Highway 1 in the Kaikoura region is closed following a rock slip this afternoon.Police are at the scene of the slip near the Parititahi Tunnel on SH1.Reports of the incident came through at 4.15pm, a police... Read...

Keep your brollies and gumboots close Auckland, it`s going to be `bucketing down` all weekend.Today, weather warnings for heavy rain are in place for the lower North Island and Kaikoura coast up to the eastern Marlborough Sounds.`Strong... Read...

A Kaikoura man has been fined $600 for impersonating a Ministry for Primary Industries fishery officer, approaching tourists and extorting money from them. Read...

Scientists have pieced together the most complex earthquake ever recorded - the 7.8 jolt that shook Kaikōura in 2016 – with some surprising results.The November 14 quake is remembered for causing two deaths, thousands of landslides,... Read...

A former Labour candidate in the Kaikoura electorate will not re-stand after she was told the electorate needed a white middle class man. Read...