Dr Husam Al-Ani's patients and friends have left online tributes to a man they say was an exemplary GP.

Andrew James Llewellyn Bishop - "Bish" - was supposed to give his sister away at her wedding.

A contractor has smashed through a major underground cable in Christchurch, leaving the southern suburbs on back-up power and nearly killing himself twice in the process.

Reviving Christchurch is a job for Government, not Alan Bollard.

Christopher Patrick Smith, who died in the Christchurch earthquake shortly after dropping his son Dean at school, was remembered at his funeral as an adventurer, a fishing enthusiast and a joker.

Police tonight named 12 more people who died in last month's Christchurch earthquake. Meanwhile, The people of Christchurch remain nervous about the future of rugby World Cup games in their earthquake-ravaged city.

Parliament has unanimously passed a bill creating a public holiday for the Christchurch earthquake commemoration, although some MPs think next Friday is too soon.

Limiting increases in rents in Christchurch would stop residents being hit by profiteering landlords, Labour deputy leader Annette King suggested today.

More than two weeks on from the earthquake that changed our second largest city forever, we recap the events that gripped the nation.

Marion Isabella McKirdy Hilbers, 49, worked as the receptionist at medical practice The Clinic in the CTV building.

Rebuilding Christchurch will create conditions similar to the building boom between 2002 and 2007, Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard says, helping the economy and improving prospects for the building sector 'massively'.

Adam Fisher worked in the Perpetual Trust offices on the first floor of the Pyne Gould Corporation building as a financial analyst.

The Government is planning for 1000 temporary housing options such as cabins and motorhomes to be established in Christchurch over the next few weeks.

Workers caught up in last month's Christchurch earthquake may be eligible for emotional trauma compensation from ACC even if they weren't physically hurt.

Warnings about Christchurch's heritage buildings in a quake were given 15 years ago on TV.

Rachel Elizabeth Conley, 27, of the United States, had just left the Southern Ink tattoo shop on Colombo Street when the earthquake struck.