Hope and despair
For 17 years our Christchurch senior writer's house has been her sanctuary. Now she shares what it's like to have that notion shattered.
View Article‘We are just shattered’
For Christchurch residents, it seems for every monumental 'if' there is a cascade of 'buts' and 'maybes'.
View ArticleBlast those barricades
Business owners whose buildings are barred to them by Civil Defence are neither reckless nor troublemakers. They just want to get back to work.
View ArticleFrustration grows
The Governments response to the Christchurch earthquakes is shaping up as a good example of how not to run a recovery.
View ArticleRead all about it
In the weeks after the earthquake, the people of Redcliffs rediscovered the true meaning of social media.
View ArticleOne day at a time
Christchurch confronts enormous conflicting crises: vanishing jobs and massive skills shortages.
View ArticleReconstructing Christchurch
The rebuilding of strife-torn Londonderry holds lessons for us.
View ArticleEnter the red zone
Our Christchurch writer goes inside the cordon to survey the city's savaged heart.
View ArticleRebuilding Christchuch – the going gets tough
The ideas are flowing for building a better, brighter Christchurch, but central business owners who want to stay are finding it tough going.
View ArticleIan Simpson interview
EQC boss Ian Simpson defends his organisations performance, explains why his agency and the insurance industry are going to court, and insists that the money is finally starting to flow.
View ArticleChristchurch is struck again
Against a background of mounting frustration, a new rash of frightening, destructive quakes are battering Christchurch.
View ArticleThe plight of Canterbury homeowners
The Governments package for Canterbury homeowners with badly damaged land has brought resolution for some and dismay for others. Rebecca Macfie looks at the circumstances of three households.
View ArticleSeeing the red zone
Rebecca Macfie takes a preview bus tour of Christchurch's CBD and finds that, even now, the devastation seems surreal.
View ArticleChristchurch’s heritage buildings are a must keep
The premature demolition of heritage buildings will harm the citys recovery.
View ArticleDespite Gerry Brownlee’s big cathedral document dump, the crucial question...
It is hard to find anything in the cache of documents published by CERA that justifies such a hasty demolition of ChristChurch.
View ArticleHow the Christchurch Pops Choir lit up our neighbourhood
In the week our second post-earthquake winter hit hard, 50 or so choristers brightened the mood.
View ArticleCan Christchurch be revitalised?
Can Christchurchs vast barren demolition sites be revitalised with a new kind of lively, transitional urban design?
View ArticleChristchurch rebuild plan: a lot to like in the lolly scramble, but much to...
The governments blueprint for a rebuilt Christchurch CBD has won approval, but theres a mass of detail to work through before it can become a reality.
View ArticleLuxcity 2012: a hopeful, makeshift, magical glow
Christchurch city radiated with a wonderful light on Saturday night.
View ArticleEQ Royal Commission: Owners given 15 years
The Government proposes giving the owners of earthquake-prone buildings 15 years to strengthen or demolish.
View ArticleEarthquake-prone buildings: how to reduce the risk
A short summary of the EQ Commission's key points.
View ArticleCTV building catastrophe: a catalogue of tragic failure
The lethal building should never have been consented, finds Royal Commission.
View ArticleRock steady
The devastation in Christchurch has set the scene for a new wave of affordable low-damage buildings and upgrades to existing ones based on rocking systems.
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