Shaken City Life
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Journalist Jane Bowron and her account of life in Christchurch during and since the earthquakes which have forever changed the city.
Journalist Jane Bowron and her account of life in Christchurch during and since the earthquakes which have forever changed the city.
More than 170 people employed by the Christchurch City Council have been told their jobs are gone as a result of the earthquake in February.
Today's memorial for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake is also being marked in Adelaide.
Christchurch has unveiled an ambitious $2 billion plan to re-create the central city as a green, people friendly, low rise zone, inside a garden. Almost six months on from the destructive February earthquake most of the centre still sits cordoned off, and half the buildings need to come down.
The Christchurch City Council has been questioned over whether it was playing russian roulette with its citizens with its rules on earthquake prone buildings.
The Christchurch Casino reopened its doors last night for the first time since the February 22nd earthquake.
A Christchurch City Councillor is worried the wishes of local residents and the council could be by-passed once the Earthquake Recovery Authority takes over rebuilding the city.
Farmers and rural businesses have been combining their efforts to bring desperately needed fresh water supplies to earthquake shattered Christchurch.
Police have confirmed the death toll from the Christchurch earthquake has reached 145.
Demolition companies and building owners in central Christchurch hope efforts by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority will speed up the city's rebuild after it's been languishing for weeks.
As we go to air, Christchurch property and business owners people are being allowed into the cordoned-off central city for the first time since the earthquake twelve days ago.
Public bus tours of Christchurch's red zone will start off with a warning that the passengers could be trapped by an earthquake and may not make it out alive.
Christchurch city councillor Barry Corbett is at Civil Defence headquarters.
Lydia Ayden is Christchurch City Council's General Manager of Public Affairs.
Some Christchurch business owners are criticising the government for winding down the earthquake support package. The Government has extended the package, which pays employees of quake effected business a wage subsidy for two more weeks.
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock reports from the Christchurch Central City cordon.
The Christchurch City Council is looking to Scandinavia for help with the earthquake re-build. Two Danish based urban design experts are working with the Council over the next four weeks to develop a draft plan for rebuilding the central city.
Bridget Mills is in the Christchurch central city with one of the rescue teams.
Sarah McMullan reviews 'When A City Falls', a documentary about the Christchurch earthquakes.
Between demolition and rebuild stands a time of opportunity in the earthquake ravaged city of Christchurch. Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler are temporary pockets of enterprise which began as early responses and have built in momentum to define the new city.
Some Christchurch residents were able to get out of the city to stay with relatives.
Radio New Zealand Reporter Rachel Graham is at the Christchurch City Council's civil defense headquarters.
Three time capsules, recovered after the Christchurch earthquake, have been opened in the city today.
Daille Rogers is at Hagley Park where people have been evacuated from the central city.
A lack of affordable space after Christchurch's earthquake threatens to fracture the city's arts community.
The first media pictures have been taken of the most recent damage to Christchurch's central city in Monday's earthquake.
Thousands of Christchurch residents have shared their views on how the central city should be rebuilt after February's catastrophic earthquake.
The devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquake has other cities reviewing how well they are prepared for a similar shake.
The devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquake has other cities reviewing how well they are prepared for a similar shake.
A month on from the Christchurch earthquake, all but a handful schools in the city are back up and running.