A new satellite-based tool published by Landcare Research has provided one of the clearest views yet of what changes last month's 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake wrought on the landscape.

Nearly a dozen dams formed by landslides in the devastating Kaikoura quake are being closely monitored for fear of collapsing.

Motorists travelling the alternative route between Christchurch and Picton have been caught up in heavy congestion today, as traffic pressure mounts on the post-quake thoroughfare.

The "drag queen disco" protest outside Destiny Church today was a great success, says the organiser.

According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

Amazing NASA photos have revealed new land off the coast of Kaikoura, raised out of ocean the by last month's 7.8 magnitude earthquake

From Monday milk tankers and other essential freight will be given access in and out of Kaikoura.

More New Zealand transport companies have started billing a surcharge as a result of last month's earthquake.

Kaikoura's fur seals famously splashed and frolicked in a pool at the foot of a waterfall. And then the earthquake came.

Govt says a public message about unusual seismic activity under the North Island was not a cause for alarm.

Tourism will weather last month's magnitude 7.8 quake, but Treasury is warning the total cost of the disaster could reach up to $3 billion.

The moderate quake, which was 24km deep, jolted Kaikoura just before 6.15pm.

A dream to run a surf school from a new seaside home is out of reach after the earthquake left a Kaikoura family out of pocket.

The Kaikoura Earthquake will cost the Government up to $3 billion, the Treasury estimates.

Lotto will be donating all profits from next Saturday's draw to the quake relief.

Primary school children in earthquake-hit Kaikoura returned to school and a sense of normality today.

INTERACTIVE: Dams created by landslides in this month's 7.8 quake have been pin-pointed on a detailed new map created by GNS Science and Environment Canterbury.

GeoNet technicians reach new heights of Kiwi ingenuity as they work in the quake zone. .

This cutie was amazingly discovered five days after the 7.8 magnitude quake.

Greens back Kaikoura quake legislation despite voicing concerns over further damage to environment and sea life.

Bills to allow the dredging of Kaikoura Harbour and other quake recovery work will pass under Urgency in Parliament today.

Geologists discover three large historic quakes on an active southern fault and suspected another big one was due to hit.

The signs of summer are among us with pohutakawa trees flowering already and forecasters say the official first day of the season on Thursday will be calm and dry.

Dr Kate Pedley went to find ruptures in the Waiau region around the original epicentre. The amount of associated rockfall, landslides and slumps were incredible.

A house moved eight metres in the Kaikoura earthquake, scientists have established.

Two weeks after the catastrophic 7.8 quake, Kaikoura continues to be rocked by nasty late night tremors.

An 18-year-old university student cycled over two hours along Kaikoura's quake-stricken coastline driven by one goal - to catch a flight.

The Government will urgently pass quake recovery laws which allow landslips in the South Island to be cleared into the ocean without consent.

Early estimate puts Kaikoura Quake insured losses at US$3.5bn, with 50 per cent of the cost incurred in Wellington.

The Earthquake Commission [EQC] has received more than 11,000 claims since Kaikoura's monster quake.