Canterbury Earthquakes

People who want the Christchurch Town Hall restored are optimistic the City Council will today commit to saving the earthquake damaged building. Audio

Two years after a quake damaged house was carefully dismantled and its materials distributed to artists here and overseas, those artists are about to put what they've created on show at Canterbury… Video, Audio, Gallery

A Christchurch painter and artist is saving tool sheds from the residential redzone in Christchurch, restoring and painting them in abstract designs. The state houses to which they belonged have all… Audio

The government is being accused of short changing the Christchurch City Council by refusing to pay anything towards a 400-million-dollar cost over-run on repairs to quake damaged pipes and roads. Audio

A woman who was badly injured in the February 2011 earthquake is critical of the proposed design of the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial. Audio

A Slovenian architect is come up with the winning design for Christchurch's earthquake memorial. Audio

Work visas for low skilled migrants are being extended and freed up to help attract the 5000 construction workers needed for the Christchurch rebuild. Audio

The young New Zealander who rose to fame rallying a student army to help with the Canterbury quake recovery is on his way to Nepal to join efforts there. Audio

Listening to that is the Housing Minister Nick Smith. Audio

Landlords in Canterbury are taking advantange of a housing crisis with the region overtaking Auckland as the most expensive to rent. Audio

Engineers of a different kind have spent the afternoon talking about ways to make Christchurch a happier place. Audio

A study of Christchurch waterways has found most are so choked with silt that only minimal numbers of eels, trout and whitebait are able to live there. Audio

Staying in Christchurch .. residents have accused the Government of keeping them in the dark while fast-tracking a new housing development on Riccarton Race course land. Audio

The Christchurch City Council is preparing to take its insurer to court over an almost-billion dollar insurance claim. Audio

A report commissioned by the Ministry of Health has found Canterbury residents are unlikely to suffer any health risks from asbestos exposure during the canterbury earthquake repairs. The Report is a… Audio

An Auckland lawyer is weighing into Christchurch's insurance woes, warning group action could set a precedent for how insurance companies handle major natural disasters in the future. Audio

Rebecca Macfie, Lloyd Jones and Gaylene Preston discuss dealing creatively with tough stuff through non-fiction, family memoir, and television drama at the 2014 Christchurch Word Writers and Readers… Audio

More than four years after the February 2011 earthquake devastated Christchurch's city centre, the rebuild in and around the iconic Cathedral Square has stalled. Audio

The ethics on grabbing a camera to document significant 'moments' when the circumstances are extreme, with Daniel Tobin, Christchurch-based photographer and video producer. Audio

The lawyer for the engineer of the collapsed CTV building has told a disciplinary hearing it wasn't clear if Alan Reay was meant to declare any building failures he was involved with. Audio