Qwinnall Ngangaha's eyes light up as radio host Simon Barnett enters the Linwood Welfare Centre.Despite being displaced from her Avonside property after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Saturday and unsure if or when she will be...

Labour MP Damien O'Connor had gone skydiving three times with Rodney Miller, who died at the weekend in the airplane crash in Fox Glacier Village."I've jumped out of a plane with Rod Miller on three occasions and can attest to...

The fire department is currently attending a building fire on Auckland's Dominion Road. A fire spokeswoman said she believed the fire was under control but fire trucks are still at the two-storey commercial building, near the...

A minor power outage in three Auckland streets has been restored.A Vector spokeswoman said a power fault had been affecting the streets in the Morningside-Balmoral region where residents were experiencing low voltage. - NZHERALD...

The Government has stepped in with an emergency $350-a-week wage subsidy for workers who aren't being paid because of the Canterbury earthquake, a move Prime Minister John Key says could cost up to $100 million.As buildings were...

Police have arrested two men after a dairy robbery in Hamilton.Inspector Matt Rogers said two men went into a dairy and stole the till.He said police arrested two men a short time later in a stolen car.Mr Rogers said no...

An eight-year-old girl is having trauma counselling after a failed attempt to kidnap her at Kumeu, northwest of Auckland yesterday.Police said a man tried to force her into a car as she walked to school.When she resisted,...

Rebuilding the estimated 100,000 damaged and destroyed homes in quake-hit Canterbury could take years.Damage assessments have only just begun and while some buildings have been demolished in the days following the 7.1 earthquake,...

Hawkes Bay and the Wairarapa have been hit by two earthquakes this morning but there have been no reports of damage.The quakes measured 5.2 and 3.6 on the Richter scale, and have been widely felt throughout the area.The 3.6...

Two heritage buildings in central Christchurch are likely to be demolished this afternoon due to earthquake damage, says Christchurch City Council.Manchester Courts, a seven-storey building on the corner of Hereford and Manchester...