The man charged with leading the Christchurch rebuild answers your question on how the city will be rebuilt.

New Zealand's operating deficit was wider than forecast in the first five months of the government's fiscal year as personal income tax continued to come up short of the Treasury's expectations.

John Roughan asks: What else might the authorities not want a traumatised population to know?

Bank economists fear as many as one in 10 Christchurch residents will leave the region if major aftershocks continue in coming months.

Five-storey building in city red zone in doubt because of insurers' reluctance to cover its construction