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A group advocating for geothermal technology says any spa-style tourism on the West Coast would need a big marketing campaign to pull in punters.

A project to drill 1.3km into the South Island's giant Alpine Fault has been halted tantalisingly close to its final goal. Video, Audio

An Air New Zealand flight from Auckland has just landed in Tonga after an earlier flight today had to turn back, the company says.

An Air New Zealand flight has been forced to turn around and head back to Auckland this morning due to continuous volcanic activity in Tonga.

Ash and smoke from a volcanic eruption in Tonga are causing some flight cancellations in the region.

GNS Science says the earthquake which hit just west of Arthur's Pass yesterday, is unlikely to have had any significant impact on the Alpine Fault.

On a flattened landscape in Banda Aceh, surrounded by debris, the Baiturrahman Mosque stood tall following the devastating 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Audio

Geologists drilling deep into the heart of the Alpine Fault are hoping to unearth important information about what goes on before a major earthquake. Video, Audio

A wearable computer, a robot helping children with cerebral palsy, and a study on government spying are just some of the projects that have won Marsden funding this year. Audio

A worker at a hotel just outside of Dunedin says a shallow, magnitude 4 earthquake this evening shook the entire building and knocked items off the walls.

Research organisations spent more than $55 million in a single year on subscriptions to academic journals, figures obtained by Radio New Zealand show.

An earthquake of a magnitude 5.5 struck the Wairarapa coast early this morning. The strong shake at 2.41am was centred 15 kilometres west of Pongaroa. Audio