Quake wage subsidies wind down from tomorrow
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From tomorrow, the Government is winding down the subsidy that allows earthquake-damaged businesses in Canterbury to keep paying their workers' wages.
From tomorrow, the Government is winding down the subsidy that allows earthquake-damaged businesses in Canterbury to keep paying their workers' wages.
The Fire Service is recognising fire crews who responded to the February earthquake at an event this evening in Christchurch.
Contractors in Christchurch are due to file legal action against the Earthquake Commission tomorrow, because of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid invoices.
Christchurch city councillors wants to know what the Earthquake Recovery Authority's plan is to hand back power to the council.
Christchurch residents are pouring cold water on the Earthquake Recovery Minister's efforts to celebrate post-quake recovery in the city.
The Insurance Council is mounting a legal challenge against the Christchurch City Council over its rules regarding earthquake-prone buildings.
The Royal Commission into the Canterbury Earthquakes has heard the CTV building collapsed because of the incompetence of the man in charge of designing it.
The government is being accused of exploiting the Christchurch earthquakes to force through sweeping changes to schools in the city.
Workers in Christchurh already stressed by the earthquakes are pleading with MPs to stop proposed changes to employment law.
The head of the Earthquake Commission is questioning why some Christchurch people are living in dire straits when there's help available.
The head of the Earthquake Commission Ian Simpson says the claims from Friday's and July's earthquakes are being handled differently from the approach taken in Christchurch.
The Earthquake Commission has brought forward its deadline for repairing thousands of earthquake-damaged properties in Canterbury by 12 months.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee, has described a 'state of the city' speech by the Christchurch mayor, Lianne Dalziel, as deeply disappointing.
Earthquake damaged Christchurch homes written off by insurance companies are becoming hot property for investors wanting to make money renting them out.
Poet/Journalist Richard Langston's fifth collection 'Things Lay in Pieces' starts with a sequence about the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
For people in Christchurch who have to temporarily leave their earthquake damaged home, two housing villages are filling the accommodation gap.
In Canterbury, work has started on re-surveying the region's landscape, following the 7.1-magnitude earthquake in September.
A Canterbury business leader says local firms are worried that the earthquake rebuilding effort is in danger of losing its way.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission is promising swift changes following criticism of the rebuilding efforts necessitated by September's big quake.
Some earthquake-affected residents in Christchurch are having their pensions and benefits cut, because they are earning interest on their insurance payouts.
Nilgun Kulpe a counsellor with Relationship Services in Christchurch who was working on the 5th floor of the CTV building when the earthquake struck.
Fran Vertue is a Clinical Psychologist with experience in truama counselling. She speaks about how to handle children dealing with the trauma of the Canterbury earthquake.
The Prime Minister says he expects the death toll from this week's Christchurch earthquake will rise to more than two hundred.
Farmers and rural businesses have been combining their efforts to bring desperately needed fresh water supplies to earthquake shattered Christchurch.
Hundreds of public servants are on their way to Christchurch to relieve their weary colleagues and bolster the Government's response to Tuesday's earthquake.
The Government has created an agency to try to lure foreign students back to New Zealand after the Christchurch earthquake.
The Government has appointed the panel of experts that will investigate why so many buildings collapsed during Christchurch's February earthquake.
Thousands of Christchurch residents have shared their views on how the central city should be rebuilt after February's catastrophic earthquake.
Christchurch's Court Theatre devastated by February's earthquake has found a temporary new home - an old grain store in the suburb of Addington.
Two shattering earthquakes and a few thousand aftershocks haven't put off a hundred immigrants becoming New Zealand citizens in Christchurch.