A Christchurch resthome under stress after the earthquakes is being blamed for systemic failures that ended in a frail elderly woman dying.
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A woman takes a photo on the street.
A woman walks past damaged buildings on Manchester Street.
A woman taking photographs beside the cordon fence on Armagh Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A woman shares home baking following Canterbury's earthquake".
"If you're that woman get in touch it would be amazing to put those two together again."
Animals have also suffered upheaval because of the Christchurch earthquakes. Jan Collins is one of those caring for some the hundreds of pets who have been left homeless because of the earthquakes.
A woman standing in a doorway which is all that remains of a demolished building.
A video of a woman performing a reading at Gap Filler's Poetica on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a woman hanging bunting at Gap Filler's 'Film in the Gap' project.
A photograph of a woman standing in the entrance of a temporary house in Rawhiti Domain.
Christchurch police have made their first arrest for false claims over earthquake damage, charging a local woman with obtaining by deception.
A woman who was badly injured in the February 2011 earthquake is critical of the proposed design of the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial.
Investigations into handling of asbestos in Canterbury earthquake repairs and a man's appeared in court charged with the murder of the Auckland woman, Blessie Gotingco.
A woman who was in Christchurch's CTV building when it collapsed during the February's earthquake says it felt like being in a falling lift.
A Canterbury woman has finally settled an insurance claim seven years to the day her family home was damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Woman rescued from PGC".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A woman carries her shopping past the extensively-damaged Blackwells department store in Kaiapoi".
A photograph of a woman reading poetry. She is standing in front of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Woman rescued from PGC".
Christchurch woman Pam Sharpe has endured earthquakes, fires and dealing with insurance companies, but then she received a parking ticket. She tells Checkpoint what happened next.
A structural engineer has broken down at the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission after admitting he contributed to a woman's death in the February the twenty second earthquake.
The Christchurch City Council has admitted it failed to provide a second line of defence in checks on a building that killed a woman during last February's earthquake.
In 1886, an English woman who called herself ‘Hopeful’, wrote of her experiences after emigrating to Christchurch, New Zealand. She berated the agents of shipping companies who painted…
A woman crushed to within milimetres of her life in the Christchurch earthquake says it is murderously cavalier for Wellington's council not to cordon off weak or prone buildings.
Christchurch woman Lavina Pockson and her family live in a house with big cracks in it, on land that's among the most damaged from the big September earthquake.
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.
A lawyer for the husband of a woman who died in the Christchurch earthquake says a coming inquest will show rifts within the Fire Service did hamper rescue efforts.