Christchurch

A Christchurch man had to rip open his plastic para pool during frantic efforts to hold off a large fire which came within two metres of the family home yesterday. The blaze, which took hold on the… Audio

Two insurance workers who had sex in their office late at night oblivious to hundreds of people looking on and filming from a central Christchurch bar could lose their jobs. Audio

A coroner has told a woman not to blame herself after she sent home a drunk man who turned up at her door in the middle of the night. Audio

With three days still to run, Christchurch's World Buskers Festival is being labelled a success by its new director. Audio

Two construction companies have been convicted of irreparably damaging an early Maori moa-hunter site while fixing a quake-damaged Christchurch house. Audio

Freedom campers in a Christchurch carpark are drawing the ire of some local people upset at the noise and rubbish left behind. Audio

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, published yesterday, showed it now requires more than six times the median household income to buy a property in both Tauranga-Western Bay… Audio

Two and a half years after some of the most badly earthquake damaged parts of Christchurch started getting cleared of residential homes, half a dozen businesses are still trying to make a go in the… Audio

RDU's Spanky Moore calls in contemporary New Zealand musicians and bands to help dissect the sound elements that make up their hits. This week, 'Give Thanks' by Reality Chant featuring Deadly Hunta. Audio

Its been six months since a Christchurch woman started helping the local homeless community with food and clothing. Today the people she's helped talk about the difference it's made. Audio

A Christchurch factory that has been the subject of hundreds of complaints about its offensive smell is today asking the regional council to give it three more years to fix the odour problems. Audio

Dr Terry Ryan, Hemi te Hemi and Harry Westrupp have a shared interest in Māori Trade Training that was established in the 1950s and continued until the early 1980s. Dr Terry Ryan is well versed in… Audio

In the 1980s, art student David Cook amassed some 6,000 photographs of his home town of Christchurch. After the earthquakes he revisited them. Now he's putting some of those photographs in a book and… Audio

Glen Howey has no problem breaking the rules to capture photos inside Christchurch's abandoned buildings. The 42-year-old photography teacher and photojournalist has taken thousands of pictures inside… Audio

Thousands of residents living in homes made vulnerable to flooding and liquefaction by the Christchurch earthquakes will find out today how they'll be compensated. Audio

The Christchurch City Council will vote in secret today on whether to proceed with assets sales. Audio

Jucy will open a new 282-bed backpacker complex in Christchurch, early in 2016, featuring low-cost, pod-style cubicles. Audio

Relatives of a Christchurch man who died from burns inflicted by two others at a booze-fuelled house party are disgusted at the sentence handed down to his killers today. Audio

The presence of wastewater and raw sewage doesn't appear to be keeping people away from Christchurch's rivers. Audio

An eye-witness to a police chase in Christchurch says a police ute may have played a part in pushing the alleged offender's vehicle into the path of a Honda carrying three elderly people. Audio