Property sector could face bills dwarfing the leaky building issue.

A unique quick-fire demolition of the eight-storey URS House in Christchurch. The building owners have chosen to demolish it rather than repair, and they are managing the demolition works privately. That work plan will see the former office block leveled in under 48 hours by two separate crews using two high-reach excavators.

This video is a remembrance of how Christchurch looked, and of lives that have changed forever. It was filmed by Lukas Kaupenjohann over two years ago, just before earthquakes ravaged the city. The exchange student filmed with friends taking more than 10.000 photos to make the movie; the stills were shot in about 2 weeks and the post production took him about one month. Courtesy of Lukas Kaupenjohann.

Fulton Hogan has suffered an 89 per cent drop in annual profit which its departing chairman described as "disappointing and totally unacceptable".

A protest called Bare Your Bum for Brighton has been organised by a fed-up Christchurch businessman who says the city council has neglected the beachside suburb for too long.

The Christchurch earthquakes taught smaller enterprises the value of insurance, and being ready when disaster strikes, writes Diana Clement.

A fight is looming between earthquake repair workers and their bosses over the city council's controversial free days off.

A man who wanted to be a police officer ended up on the wrong end of the law when he was caught at a checkpoint with firearms, police uniforms and equipment.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

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.

Stressed Christchurch council office workers will get an extra day's paid holiday each month, but their colleagues helping rebuild the quake-damaged city won't be getting it.

Following a bus tour of the red zone the Archbishop of Canterbury says he is stunned by the scale of damage from the Christchurch earthquakes.

Search and rescue units were told to stop scouring the collapsed CTV Building's rubble for survivors within 24 hours of it coming down.

Liquefaction did more damage to underground pipes than ground movement in the Christchurch earthquakes, a University of Canterbury study has found.

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.

The inquest into the CTV deaths has heard of frustrations caused by delays and chaos in the hours after the catastrophe.

More harrowing testimony is expected as a coroner's inquest into the deaths of eight CTV building victims continues today.

The police officer left in charge of the Christchurch earthquake's biggest disaster zone said he became "frustrated" at being ordered off the site as he tried to rescue survivors.

Police today admitted the February 22 earthquake disaster in Christchurch "overwhelmed" their communication system.

Mark Quigley asks: Do scientists have a right to be wrong? Does state-of-the-art science really enable us to speak confidentially about "low-probability" events?