You've all read the stories: the New Zealand economy is predicted to be a "rock star" this year, largely on the back of the Canterbury rebuild.

Firefighters, police officers, Urban Search and Rescue experts, and courageous passersby risked life and limb to drag several survivors from the CTV Building.

Christchurch has been shaken by a shallow magnitude 4.0 earthquake this morning.

Derelict buildings are scary. I know this from experience.

The ongoing impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes are disproportionately impacting children from low-income families, with health problems and family violence on the rise, a new report says.

PM John Key has today seen firsthand the damage wrought by the bad weather that has hammered Christchurch, telling flooded business owners to "hang in there".

The engineering design work done on four new Christchurch buildings will be reviewed for "negligence or incompetence", Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson announced today.

There were times when whistles should have been blown and loudly, but were not, writes Brian Rudman. Is it any wonder the police are taking their time?

The families of those killed in the collapse of the CTV building in the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake are calling on the Government to review legislation around corporate manslaughter.

A briefing will be held today with families of Japanese victims of the Canterbury Television building collapse during the devastating earthquake three years ago, Prime Minister John Key says.

A minute's silence has been observed for the 185 people who were killed in the 2011 Canterbury earthquake.

A minute's silence has been observed for the 185 people who were killed in the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, as hundreds gathered to mark the third anniversary of the tragedy.

Nick Walls knows the slow pace of recovery better than anyone.

February 22 is Bonnie Singh's mother's birthday. But for the past three years there has been no celebration.

It's been four years since devastating earthquakes changed the very fabric of life for Cantabrians and the city of Christchurch forever. This is the second installment of a two-part series.

In this first installment of a two part series, nzherald.co.nz remembers the devastation and trauma that changed the fabric of life for Cantabrians and the city of Christchurch forever.

Owners of damaged and unrepairable Canterbury homes are increasingly selling them on an "as is, where is" basis, a new property report says.

Nearly $200m is being paid by insurer Vero to the Education Ministry for quake-damaged schools in Christchurch, in one of the country's biggest-ever payouts.

The Earthquake Commission is two-thirds of the way through repairing houses damaged by the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes in a contract managed by Fletcher Building.

'It will be nice to have an apology.' Police are to compensate pensioner John Bennett for the way he was roughed up by armed officers in his own home two years ago.

A shallow 4.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled Christchurch this afternoon.

Scientists say lights from electrical discharges are a sign of stress at faultlines and can give warning of big shakes