Christchurch: Conspicuous resumption
For two years we have seen images of Christchurch, a broken city. Ewan McDonald visits a community picking up the pieces.
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Taste the difference
Major breweries are battling for market share as the taste for "quality" beer takes hold in supermarkets and pubs. Geoff Cumming follows the consumer-led revolution.
Big turn out but little trouble at Cup Day
Cup day's Best Dressed Woman will auction off her prize-winning dress to raise money for two children who lost their mother in the February 2011 earthquake.
Cup Day biggest since quakes began
Christchurch's iconic Trotting Cup Day will be the biggest since the earthquakes began, organisers say.
Online job ads down in October - Seek
New online job ad listings were down last month, according to a major New Zealand employment website.
Bob Parker: My earthquake story
Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.
CTV: Bomb rescue techniques used
A search and rescue expert used Oklahoma City bombing terrorist attack rescue techniques to take control of the CTV Building collapse site, an inquest heard today.
Don't panic over water nitrate levels - doctor
A top doctor is urging pregnant women not to panic about high nitrate levels in Mid Canterbury water - despite earlier spotlighting the potentially fatal health risks.
CTV: 'No confusion' over leadership
A Fire Service has disagreed strongly with some earlier witnesses at the CTV inquest that there was confusion over leadership on February 22 last year.
Sir Bob Jones: Bain case disgrace
The continuing obstinacy of courts, police and government is thankfully no match for the determination of Joe Karam, writes Sir Bob Jones.
Man arrested for alleged assault in South Canterbury
A man has been arrested for an alleged assault which left another man with serious head injuries in the South Canterbury town of Temuka.
CTV: Emotional u-turn failed to pay off
Search and rescue units were told to stop scouring the collapsed CTV Building's rubble for survivors within 24 hours of it coming down.
Snow and gales for South Island
Flying debris and trees and branches falling across roads could make it unsafe to be outside if predicted severe northwest gales hit Otago and Southland today.
CTV site was 'chaos' after collapse
A coroner's inquest today heard from a senior search and rescue expert who described the "chaos" at the disaster site when he arrived two hours after the building's collapse.
CTV inquest: 'No one was listening'
The inquest into the CTV deaths has heard of frustrations caused by delays and chaos in the hours after the catastrophe.
Canterbury zoning process completed
The green-zoning of a final eight residential properties in the Port Hills of Christchurch marks the end of the zoning process in Canterbury.
Sir Ed's signature mystery solved
The signature of Sir Edmund Hillary has been rediscovered at Mid Canterbury's Double Hut, after it was last spotted there in 2002.