Christchurch: Five buildings cordoned off as dangerous
Five unoccupied buildings on Christchurch's New Regent Street have been cordoned off, after an engineering report identified them as dangerous and earthquake prone.
Five unoccupied buildings on Christchurch's New Regent Street have been cordoned off, after an engineering report identified them as dangerous and earthquake prone.
One of the last residents of a Red Zone area in Christchurch is moving on, breaking a 132-year family connection to the land.
Liquidators are trying to claw back some of this money and have served formal legal notices on 12 Arena Capital investors.
On February 22, 2011, 178 children lost a parent. To mark six years since NZ's darkest day, the Herald honours the children of the Christchurch quake.
The incredible thing about significant events is that most of us remember what we were doing and where we were when they happened, writes Barry Soper.
Christchurch-based foreign exchange firm owes clients $7 million.
As she lay in the hospital bed, bracing for emergency surgery, Kim Haugh was already petrified. And then the shaking began.
Five years after a shallow, savage earthquake flattened Christchurch, the story of its central business district is a "tale of two cities".
Organisers of a protest in Christchurch's cathedral square this afternoon are calling for an external review of the way the Earthquake Commission has handled claims.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake centred 10km west of Christchurch has shaken a city still reeling from a larger quake last Sunday.
Lyttelton's recreation centre has finally reopened, almost five years to the day after it was damaged in the Christchurch earthquake on February 22, 2011.
Five years after the 22 February 2011 earthquake in his city of birth, Phil Taylor went back to see how those he met had fared.
They live in a modest "as-is-where-is" place bought with an EQC payment and borrowings but it is not the family home Annette Thomson imagined.
Cantabrians wrestled with this question after the February 2011 earthquake.
You can't deny the so-called 'feel good factor' a stadium might bring to a community. But should rate payers be responsible for paying for a facility that could be under-utilised, writes Chris Lynch.
The land deemed as red-zone in the aftermath of the deadly 2011 Christchurch earthquake has deteriorated from a quake-shattered suburbia to a lifeless landscape.
The Earthquake Commission has received 1169 claims following the magnitude 5.7 jolt on Sunday afternoon.
Rocks fell from cliffs not far from houses in Sumner and Redcliffs in the 5.7 aftershock but one expert said the most significant damage would be psychological.
Nearly 500 insurance claims have been made to the Earthquake Commission since yesterday's violent earthquake in Canterbury.
A campaigner is hoping to get at least a million Kiwis to post a message on their social media walls at exact time the Christchurch earthquake hit five years ago.
Road workers fear there could be more hidden dangers below the unstable surface on a busy Christchurch road.
Geologist Andy Winneke was sailing his 20ft yacht off the Christchurch coast when he felt a vibration under the boat.
The latest big quake comes after more than 15,000 others, most of them too weak to be felt, in an aftershock sequence triggered by the 2010 Darfield earthquake.
Christchurch has been shaken by a 5.7 magnitude magnitude quake at 1.13pm this afternoon. There have been no reports of serious damage or injuries but a cliff has fallen in Sumner.
LIVE CHAT: Seismologist Dr John Ristau answers questions on the latest quake to strike Christchurch.
The Christchurch man killed in an assault last night has been identified.
Emergency services are responding to reports of a fatal crash near Taylor's Mistake in eastern Christchurch.
Tributes have flowed in for musician Richard Chandler who died yesterday after he was struck by a train while cycling in Christchurch.
The death of an accomplished musician who was struck by a train while cycling this morning has shaken Christchurch's music community.