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Swimming: Pool workouts perfect escape from quake ruins

Race to raise quake cash

Residents face long wait to hear of fate of homes

The Government is still months away from a definitive answer on where and how many homes in Christchurch will need to be demolished and abandoned.

Teen rowers beat big jolt to win through on water

Disasters put holidays on hold

Editorial: Time to give Christchurch back to locals

McCully sorry not all moved RWC games stayed south

Civil Defence to issue quake ID cards

John Roughan: Controllers just cannot let go

Most of Christchurch CBD now accessible

More than 510 businesses, or 2000 people, have been granted access to buildings within the cordoned area.

Jim Hopkins: Give those old beliefs a bit of a shakeup

The moon's got nothing to do with it. Unless it does. Which it may. Perhaps. We just don't know. It's a bit like having lucky numbers for Lotto.

Anxiety in Tokyo over radiation in tap water

Workers loaded trucks with boxes of bottled water to distribute across the city today after residents cleared store shelves following warnings that Tokyo's tap water had elevated radiation coming from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear complex

Determined CTV survivor hands in university thesis

Australia restricts Japan food imports

Water poisonous for Tokyo infants

The Tokyo Water Bureau has warned parents not let their infants drink the city's radioactive water supply, with levels two times the recommended limit for infants.

More Japanese plants grind to halt