New Zealand offered to buy 5,000 damaged homes in quake-devastated Christchurch on Thursday and said it was assessing whether to purchase another 10,000.

Prime Minister John Key said the offer relate

Travel chaos from the Chile ash cloud spread to Western Australia on June 15 with Virgin, Qantas and Jetstar suspending flights into and out of Perth.

Aftershocks continued to rattle Christchurch on Tuesday, as authorities said an elderly man died when series of powerful tremors hit the New Zealand city a day earlier.

A tornado ripped across part of New Zealand's largest city on Tuesday, upturning cars and sending debris slicing through the air, witnesses and news reports said. At least one person was killed and ab

A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of New Zealand on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a local tsunami warning but said ther

A strong 5.2-magnitude aftershock rocked the quake-shattered New Zealand city of Christchurch on Saturday and cut power to several areas, but there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said.

Former Australian national coach John Buchanan, who guided the side to three World Cups, was confirmed on Friday as New Zealand’s new director of cricket.

Wellington: Waves from the Japanese quake-generated tsunami that lapped New Zealand Saturday peaked at about one metre, a media report said.

According to the New Zealand Herald, civil defence officia

Wellington, New Zealand: Rescuers officially gave up hope of finding more survivors of New Zealand's devastating earthquake, saying Thursday that no one trapped in rubble when the disaster struck nine

Christchurch: It was the mountaineering skills that came handy to the climbing enthusiast to save himself and 14 others out of an office block wrecked during the New Zealand earthquake.

John Haynes