Key promises announcement next week on damaged land
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Prime Minister, has promised people in Canterbury they will know next Wednesday whether they can rebuild on ground badly damaged by this month's earthquake.
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Quakes Commission checks on responsibility for cordon
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has tried to determine exactly who should have put a cordon around a central Christchurch building identified as an earthquake risk.
Quake inquiry looks at whether heritage outweighed safety
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Witnesses before the Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission have been questioned over whether preservation of heritage buildings was given more consideration than preserving human lives.
Rising household insurance premiums - Ian Simpson
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch earthquakes could prompt a further shake up of the insurance industry. Home owners are already being hit with premium increases of up to 30%.
Mediawatch for 19 February 2012
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Marking the upcoming earthquake anniversary in Christchurch; right of reply on The Panel; newspaper stories with overhyped headlines; a controversial contest backfies on radio - but not really.
Business owners faced hard decision to leave Christchurch
Audio, Radio New Zealand
When the earthquake demolished Christchurch's central business district, some business owners had no option but to pack up and start again in a different city.
Trev's BBQ
Audio, Radio New Zealand
An Ashburton couple who cooked barbecues for earthquake-weary Christchurch residents for nine months following the February quake have been named the joint winners of the Trustpower Community Awards.
Southern Story for 5 July 2012 - The Quake Box
Audio, Radio New Zealand
To Christchurch now, where the people most affected by the region's earthquakes are getting a chance to tell their stories to a wider audience.
Christchurch man challenges insurer to live in his house
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A Christchurch man, whose house was damaged in the earthquakes, has challenged his insurer's CEO to live in it if she truly believes it's repairable.
Up to 50 additional buildings damaged in red zone
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Authority says today's aftershocks have caused up to 50 additional buildings in the city's redzone to collapse or partially collapse.
Latest earthquakes leave women's refuges overflowing
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch Womens Refuge says its safe houses are full as women have fled the worsening domestic violence in the city following June's powerful aftershocks.
Labour accuses Government of underfunding skills training
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Labour Party has accused the Government of sitting on money set aside to provide skills training needed for the Canterbury earthquake rebuild.
Royal Commission investigates CTV building
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission begins looking into the collapse of the Canterbury Television Building today, with dramatic evidence due to be heard from some of the survivors.
Midday Business News for 9 July 2012
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Canterbury retail spending surges following earthquake disruptions. Traders face potential prison terms in Britain's rate-rigging scandal and the sharemarket falls half a percent.
Demolition prompts hope for damaged Christchurch buildings
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The destruction of the Radio Network building in Christchurch has prompted hopes that explosive demolition could be used to bring down other earthquake-damaged buildings.
Business leaders happy with plan for Christchurch rebuild
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The creation of a new unit within the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to oversee the rebuilding of central Christchurch is being welcomed by business leaders.
Quake claimants band together to take on insurers
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Frustrated Christchurch residents are banding together to take on their insurance companies, who they say are taking too long to process their earthquake damage claims.
Christchurch sitting on mental health 'time bomb'
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Dr Sue Bagshaw, the head of a youth health clinic Christchurch, fears the high rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among children will skyrocket due to the earthquake.
Chch residents furious at Regenerate Chch plans
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch's earthquake rebuild authority, Regenerate Christchurch, has released a new report setting out a timeline for what to do with the land - but angry residents are calling for action.
Christchurch Council holding on to City Care
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch City Council abandons plan to sell its City Care maintenance bid as part of its plan to raise $600 million to repair infrastructure damaged by earthquakes.
Christchurch homeowners describe battles to get "as when new" repairs
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch homeowners speak to Checkpoint about their battles with EQC, to have their homes repaired to "as new" standard, not "pre earthquake".
Earthquakes expose hidden artefacts in central Christchurch
Audio, Radio New Zealand
When the Canterbury earthquakes brought about the destruction of almost all of the buildings in central Christchurch, it created a unique opportunity for an insight into the past.
Architecture graduate turned illustrator celebrates beauty of New Zealand …
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Josh Currie sells hand-drawn illustrations of houses, including requests from people whose much-loved homes were lost to tragedies like housefires or the Christchurch earthquakes.
CER Act used to speed up redevelopment of Lyttelton Port
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Lyttelton Port is applauding a government decision to use the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act to speed up the redevelopment of the badly damaged port.
Royal couple meet with families of Chch earthquake victims
Audio, Radio New Zealand
In Christchurch today the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took time to talk to some of the families of those who died in the February 2011 earthquake.
Warning that a return to pre-quake housing levels not enough
Audio, Radio New Zealand
There's a warning that a return to pre-earthquake numbers of houses in Christchurch may not be enough to ease the city's housing crisis.
Frustration mounts in Christchurch over 7 years battling EQC
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Nearly seven years on from the Christchurch earthquake, some quake damaged homeowners with unresolved insurance claims say they are being driven to the point of complete exhaustion.
Gerry Brownlee acted 'unlawfully' over uninsured land, court rules
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The former Earthquake Recovery Minister's decision to exclude uninsured Canterbury landowners under the Recovery Plan was unlawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled in an interim judgement.
Govt says acquisition price for Chch property 'about right'
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee, says the Government's got the price 'about right' for land it's bought for Christchurch's refurbished central business district.
EQC chief responds to highly critical report
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A new report says the Earthquake Commission was ill-prepared for a major earthquake and had to use inexperienced staff to respond to the Canterbury earthquakes.