Kilmarnock Enterprises showcases valuable employment opportunities

Grassroots football boosted by grants

Grassroots football has been given yet another financial boost two years on from the All Whites 2010 FIFA World Cup campaign, which saw the establishment of the New Zealand Football Foundation.

London symposium Presentation

Attached is the CERA / CCDU PowerPoint presentation from the London symposium that Warwick Isaacs, James Hay and Alison O’Connell spoke at. This is only the visuals, without the context of the speakers on each subject but there are some key facts to take away from this. 

Day 592 - Comcare Trust joins co-op

This morning a meeting was held with staff at Comcare Trust in Addington to establish another distribution centre for the Christchurch South Fruit & Veggie Co-op (CSFVC).

How much life insurance is enough?

Christchurch, it’s time for a cup of tea?

Daily late shopping in central city promoted

Central Christchurch could follow an international trend for daily late shopping to compete with suburban malls.

Shaping the future of our wastewater system

Christchurch residents can have a say about how they'd like the city's wastewater system to look in 10, 30 and 100 years time.

UC student wins award in Australasian competition

Small Business: Earthquakes show use of cloud

'Moaners' box on and enjoy a fun night out

Postnatal depression increases after quakes

Canterbury mothers are suffering from "more complex" postnatal depressions since the earthquakes and the worst is yet to come.

New bids to save Cranmer Courts

Lights recessed without heat, risk of fire

“[It went] from a sketch into a product,” says Plastech Industries general manager Graeme Rikard. “Watching Kiwi businesses succeed, that's the rush I get out of it.”

Whinging & Carping With Other Christchurch Earthquake TC3 friends

Good morning all! Had an awesome night out at the Rebuild Christchurch Whinging & Carping party. Thank you to the organisers. It was a shame the event wasn’t better attended, which we hope does NOT indicate that people in Christchurch have become too worn down to be bothered to go to social events.

It's not all cruisy for Akaroa residents

More than 200,000 tourists are expected to descend on the quaint, quiet seaside village of Akaroa this cruise season, and it won't be plain sailing.

Timelapse video captures PWC demo

The giant demolition excavator Twinkle Toes has slowly been unravelling the PricewaterhouseCoopers building.

AMI/Southern Response Insurance Watch Cluster Meeting

University of Canterbury axes courses, jobs

The earthquakes in Christchurch have left its university facing large bills for insurance and repair work.

CTV case referred to federal police

Evidence supports claims the man who supervised the construction of the CTV building in Christchurch faked his identity.

Canterbury University's post-quake struggles

As the University of Canterbury struggles to recover from the earthquakes, some academic staff are concerned that management is taking it in the wrong direction and that morale is at rock bottom. PHILIP MATTHEWS reports.

Colour therapy

If you are feeling more emotional or having mood swings since the quakes, it might be a result of Christchurch's new obsession with colour. BECK ELEVEN reports from the red-green-white zone.

Aussie cops to investigate CTV builder

Police in Australia will investigate claims the man who supervised the construction of the CTV building stole another man's identity.

Street art brings post-quake city to life

Street artists are bringing life back to Christchurch's quake-hit streets. SAM SACHDEVA looks at the rise of the colourful movement and how it could help the city's recovery.

'Carpers and moaners' set to party

Christchurch's so-called earthquake whingers are set to ditch their troubles for a night of fun.

Grants may save Pomeroys building

The Christchurch City Council may help fund seismic strengthening work on two of Canterbury's oldest brewery buildings.

Mayor keen to chip in on Cathedral's design

Police had 'no choices' on February 22

Police had no choice but to react as they did after the February 22 earthquake, a senior officer says.

Quake response faulted

Weaknesses and tensions" between the Christchurch City Council and Civil Defence after the February 22 earthquake "put people and property at risk", an independent review into the emergency response has found.

Demand grows for skilled staff

The Canterbury rebuild underpinned a 12.3 per cent national increase in the number of jobs listed on Trade Me in the last quarter.

Framing the central city: again

Day 589 - Holcim volunteers paint building

Today 4 volunteers from Holcim joined the Addington Action work crew and spent the day painting a building in Strickland St that is being used by Christchurch South Community Gardens as a community facility.

Denise, Deirdre, George and Ngaire joined Des and Mike and they all did a great job putting on 30 litres of paint with roller brushes and paint brushes. The new mobile scaffolding was used for painting the high bits because it was safer to do it this way.

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Day 589 - fruit & veggie orders

There are 266 orders from the 12 CSFVC distribution centres open over the school holidays for fruit and veggie packs next week. These will be packed and distributed on Wednesday 10 October.

2 Addington Action
18 Eureka St
9 Hoon Hay Presbyterian
14 Generation Health
48 Manuka Cottage
37 Opawa Baptist
18 Rowley Resource Centre
21 Salvation Army Sydenham
11 Spreydon Baptist Cobham Hall
30 St Bernadette's Hall
13 St Mary's Heathcote
45 Sydenham Community C ...

Review into Civil Defence response 'must not be written off'

More than a question of stadiums

Banks Peninsula facilities to close

Christchurch City Council is today (Friday 5 October) closing four community facilities on the Banks Peninsula after receiving the results of engineering assessments that show they are earthquake-prone.

Lumley Insurance Cluster Meeting

Quake-prone Banks Peninsula facilities to shut

Four Bank Peninsula community facilities will close today after engineering assessments showed they were earthquake-prone.

Review highlights quake response failings

Civil Defence Release of independent review into earthquake response

The independent was today released by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management.

Initial quake response sound - report

Emergency services were ''well-managed and effective'' in their response to the February 2011 earthquake, a report has found.

Office and retail block gets go-ahead

Recent success for Calcon

Calcon continues to play a major role in the development on infrastructure around the Canterbury region.

Cranmer Court demolition 'all bad news'

City councillors who fought to save the historic Cranmer Court in Christchurch from demolition have conceded defeat, saying the cost of restoration was just too much.

Tribute to Avonside

Tribute to Avonside: Service of Thanksgiving

Efforts fail to save Cranmer Courts

The historic Cranmer Courts building had to be demolished because there was no plan to save it, earthquake recovery boss Roger Sutton says.

Reminder – next public meetings to be held 9 & 10 October

At these meetings, you will be able to:

Cathedral custodians reject claims they can't demolish

Custodians of the earthquake-crippled Christ Church Cathedral have today flatly rejected claims they cannot legally demolish the landmark building.

Protesters arrested at Cranmer Court demolition

Cranmer Court was home to New Zealand’s first normal school, Christchurch Teachers’ College, and most recently 31 inner city apartments, before the February quake struck.

EQC – TC3 geotechnical updates

Canterbury earthquakes broke the rules

The Canterbury earthquakes packed such a punch they shattered rocks deep beneath the Earth's surface, breaking all the rules of aftershocks, a public lecture has heard.

Work progresses at Ferrymead Bridge site

EQC - Apportionment explained

EQC have updated their website to provide more detail on what apportionment means, and how it is worked out.

Protests as Cranmer Court is demolished

Protesters have been arrested as the demolition of one of Christchurch’s oldest buildings got underway this morning.

Some post-quake injuries 'avoidable'

Further education is needed to teach people what to do after an earthquake, not just during the shaking itself, the Safety 2012 conference has heard.

Owners 'not obliged' to save cathedral

Help for businesses returning to CBD

A ratepayer-funded one-stop shop has been set up to help property owners and businesses plot their return to Christchurch's central city.

Cranmer Court demolition to resume

By 3 News online staff

Sumner Village draft master plan released for consultation

The Christchurch City Council has released for consultation a draft master plan for Sumner Village.  The 103-page report can be viewed here [Large file - PDF 14MB, on the CCC website]. CCC instructions on how to make a submission A submission …

Christchurch rebuilders given safety message