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.
Organisers of CelloNZ series of Auckland-based Christchurch Earthquake Relief concerts and masterclasses.
Canterbury earthquakes is recommending toughening the standards for concrete buildings and structural steel.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has confirmed land zoned red in Christchurch has no legal status.
The risk of another large earthquake hitting Christchurch has declined and is getting smaller.
Christchurch employers have been in Wellington today signing up tradespeople to help rebuild the earthquake damaged city.
Aid agencies in Canterbury say the earthquake recovery is putting buildings before people.
Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman whose new collection Shaken Down 6.3 looks at the impacts and aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes. It's published by Canterbury University Press.
A new report says a major earthquake in Wellington would leave a bill of nearly 40 billion dollars, almost twice as much as that of the Canterbury quakes.
Colleagues of a Christchurch man killed in February's earthquake today relived the frightening moments when the quake struck.
It's been a year since Pip Ranby was rescued from the top floor of the five storey Canterbury Television building.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister says he's sick of insurance companies giving baseless excuses for delaying earthquake claims in Christchurch .
Two years ago today a seven-point-one magnitude earthquake shook Canterbury.
Topic 1: The Minister for Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee, was quick to apologise to the Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker for calling him a clown. Topic 2: The Electoral Commission says John Key's hour-long pre-election radio show gave him the chance to raise his personal profile unchallenged.
We look back at the first anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
A company helping to demolish earthquake damaged buildings in Christchurch, has come to the rescue of the heritage-listed Peterborough Centre.
In Christchurch, people have been marking one year on from the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake.
The last unidentified victims of the Christchurch earthquake have been laid to rest in a ceremony in Christchurch.
At least 20 thousand people gathered at the public memorial service in Christchurch to remember the earthquake that occured one year earlier.
A lawyer is claiming five victims of February's Christchurch earthquake died because of inept search and rescue efforts.
A proof-reading error from the Earthquake Recovery Minister's office has caused ructions at the Christchurch City Council today.
Using mini-seismometers which connect to home computers by a USB connection, volunteers in Christchurch are collecting a huge amount of earthquake data.
The worst of the exodus from Christchurch after last year's earthquakes is over, according to a group which studies population trends.
17 jobs have gone at the Christchurch Art Gallery, which is closed for earthquake repairs until at least June next year.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister and the Insurance Council both deny that insurance companies pressured the Government to relax building guidelines in Canterbury.
Christchurch locals made homeless by the earthquakes have made an emotional plea to the council for 100 percent rates relief.
Retired Christchurch people affected by the earthquakes are disappointed they have been left out of new rules aimed at giving people in retirement villages better payouts after natural disasters.
We're joined by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's chief executive Roger Sutton.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's chief executive, Roger Sutton.
Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 6th April. This week... we look at the commercial deals some media personalities are making these days, a documentary on the history of New Zealand's psychiatric hospitals, a new social phenomenon - the increasing number of people who choose to live alone, a new book and interesting findings about our national icon the kiwi, With the aid of advanced functional MRI scanners, scientists are getting closer to being able to read your mind, the opening of a public art project by the Christchurch Art Gallery to try and ensure art continues to have a presence in the earthquake hit city.