Schools to focus on emotional recovery
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch principals say schools' recovery from Tuesday's earthquake will focus more on emotional issues than infrastructure.
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CERA could take over running of Chch within days
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Responsibility for dealing with the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake could pass from Civil Defence to the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority within a matter of days.
Christchurch on track to getting students back to school
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A month on from the Christchurch earthquake, all but a handful schools in the city are back up and running.
Paul Nicholls
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The creator of Christchurch's online 'earthquake map' explains its mechanics and its wide appeal around the world.
Christchurch schools call for leeway on national standards
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch school principals say they might not be able to implement the government's national standards properly because of the February earthquake.
Dean of the Christchurch Cathedral runs for council
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Dean of the Christchurch Cathedral says he's stepping down so he can better serve the city during the earthquake recovery.
Hearing into Canterbury earthquakes begins today
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Royal Commission hearings into the Canterbury earthquake begin in Christchurch today to examine why some of the newer buildings in the city's CBD failed so badly.
Christchurch City Council questioned over russian roulette
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch City Council has been questioned over whether it was playing russian roulette with its citizens with its rules on earthquake prone buildings.
Spectrum for 25 September 2011
Audio, Radio New Zealand
International Red Cross Manager Bob McKerrow talks with Deborah Nation about his long career spent helping others. Bob is no stranger to disaster but it's a new experience to see the sufferings of his earthquake-hit home-town of Christchurch.
Export markets vital to economy's prospects after quake
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch earthquake looks to have dashed hopes of a pickup in household spending this year.
Christchurch girls' school surprises Polyfest organisers
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A Christchurch kapa haka group took to the stage in Auckland today, surprising organisers who didn't expect they'd be able to perform after last month's earthquake.
Christchurch has been hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The first one struck just before 2 this afternoon and measured 5 point 8 on the Richter scale, and was eight kilometres deep.
Chch English language schools far from recovered
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Four years after the Christchurch earthquakes, English language student numbers are still only just over half what they were before the 2011 quake.
Springsteen for quake anniversary concert
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Bruce Springsteen has announced dates for a New Zealand tour including a concert in Christchurch for the anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake.
Justice for CTV families
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The families of those who died in the CTV building collapse in Christchurch's 2011 earthquake say they will continue to fight for justice.
Cathedral Square's first dawn service since 2010
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Earlier this morning Christchurch's Cathedral Square saw its first dawn service since the earthquake in 2011. The city's Mayor Phil Mauger was there.
Cruise ships coming back to Christchurch in 2019
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Lyttelton Port Company, owned by Christchurch City Council, will spend $56 million on a new berth for cruise ships, which haven't visited the garden city since the 2011 earthquake.
Extra Time for 25 February 2011
Audio, Radio New Zealand
As the search for victims continues and the long recovery from Tuesday's disastrous earthquake in Christchurch begins there've been suggestions the stricken city's rugby world cup matches could be transferred to Australia. We hear from Rugby World Cup 2011's chief executive Martin Snedden, who says that's not the case. We look at the second round of Super Rugby, and hear from the Olympic 1500 metres silver medalist Nick Willis who's hoping his belated medal presentation will boost effort to raise money for Christchurch earthquake relief funds. And we also talk to a veteran Black Sticks defender who's quit international hockey.
Psychological responses to the Canterbury earthquakes
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Caroline Bell, consultant psychiatrist and the clinical head of the Anxiety Disorders Unit at the Canterbury District Health Board talks about the psychological fallout from the Christchurch quakes.
Post quake exodus from Christchurch unlikely
Audio, Radio New Zealand
With Tom Love - A principal of consulting firm Sapere Research Group, who was commissioned by the Canterbury District Health Board, to examine the population impact of February's earthquake.
Christchurch: return of 60-thousand quake 'refugees'
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Civil Defence says as many as sixty thousand people are expected to return to Christchurch after fleeing the city because of last month's earthquake.
Rebuilding Christchurch will take time and money
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The task of rebuilding Christchurch is being compared to what was required to restore the Japanese city of Kobe after its massive earthquake in 1995.
Jennine Bailey
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Christchurch jazz vocalist performing with many other artists as part of Earthquake fundraising concert in Wellington this weekend.
Emily Sanson-Rejouis who survived the Haiti earthquake
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Founder of Purple Cake Day held on the 1st of March, fundraising for children in Haiti and Christchurch.
Gerry Brownlee says 12,000 Christchurch homes could go
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The number of homes likely to be demolished in Christchurch because of earthquake damage could be as many as twelve thousand.
Battered Sydenham cautiously optimistic about future
Audio, Radio New Zealand
One of the Christchurch suburbs worst hit in the Canterbury earthquakes is on the way to recovery.
Quake-hit Christchurch Residents having to return home
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Some Canterbury residents are returning to homes damaged in last year's 7.1 earthquake, because they can't afford to live anywhere else.
Charity cricket match raises $500,000 for Christchurch
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A star-studded charity cricket match in Wellington has raised half a million dollars for the Prime Minister's appeal for the Canterbury earthquake.
Christchurch public consider quake memorial options
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The husband of a woman who died in the CTV building during the February 2011 earthquake is encouraging the public to have their say on a memorial to honour the 185 people who lost their lives four years ago.
Earthquake property inspectors earning $750 a day
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Seven $750 a day - plus expenses. That's the sum being earned by more than 414 people employed by the Earthquake Commission to carry out property inspections in Christchurch.