Stories by Conan Young

The Christchurch City Council has been told if it can demonstrate it's building consents department is up to scratch over the next month, its consents accreditation will be returned. Audio

Lyttelton opened its new $2.8 million town square at the weekend, the first phase of a series of projects aimed at revitalising the port town after the 2011 earthquake.

The Christchurch City Council and the Government are at loggerheads again - this time over proposed new planning rules and moves to increase the supply of affordable homes.

The Government says the Christchurch City Council's proposed new planning rules are inadequate and fail to encourage the building of much-needed affordable homes.

Christchurch ratepayers landed with a 7.5 percent increase are likely to face more pain as changes to what the city council can charge property developers leave a $32 million shortfall.

The most senior member of the military court-martialled since WWII, Commodore Kevin Keat, has won an appeal against his convictions.

The role of the former chairperson of South Canterbury Finance, the late Allan Hubbard, has again taken centre stage at the trial of three of its directors in Timaru. Audio

A Christchurch construction company says figures showing a 4.6 percent increase in the cost of buying and building new homes are conservative. Audio

The Green Party is promising to spend $200 million over four years on making it safer for children to use pedal power to get to school. Audio