New Zealand's biggest residential repair job is nearly finished, with Fletcher Earthquake Recovery completing most of the Christchurch housing repair backlog.

A structural engineer who worked on Christchurch's CTV building has lost a legal bid to stop a disciplinary process into his work.

The Government did well in Christchurch at the last election, nine months after its worst earthquake. National is said to be less popular there at this election

It's the time of the year when many of us, especially Cantabrians, will reflect on the events of September 4, 2010.

Families of the 115 people killed in the CTV building collapse during the 2011 Canterbury quake are hopeful justice will be served by a criminal investigation.

"Whatever we pointed out - he said, 'no that's historical." A Christchurch couple say an EQC engineer who assessed their house falsely told them it was safe.

The Christchurch City Council and the Government are looking to buy 16 green-zoned properties on the Port Hills that have been identified as being at risk from landslides.

The rebuild of Christchurch has put public planning and procurement processes under the spotlight.

Senior firefighter Terry Gyde tunnelled his way into the twisted steel and concrete of two collapsed buildings in the aftermath of the February 22, 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch City Council has revealed it faces a funding black hole of up to $900 million to help rebuild the earthquake-wrecked city. So does that mean asset sales?

A heartfelt apology has been issued to the families of the CTV Building collapse victims by the structural engineer who designed it.

A $10 million memorial for the victims of Christchurch’s February 22 earthquake will be built on the banks of the Avon River.

Editorial: It is easy to sympathise with Local Govt NZ's misgivings about Labour's plan to take EQC levies off insurance premiums and add them to rates bills.

Labour is proposing a sweeping overhaul of New Zealand's disaster insurance regime including shifting EQC levies from insurance premiums

Jim Anderton asks: 'Take a good look at the Cathedral as it still stands today, (taken from a helicopter on June 7, 2014), and ask yourself does this look like a ruin to you?'

For many people in Canterbury, the earthquakes of September 2010, February 2011 and later had little or no effect.