Canterbury

A Christchurch property developer thinks forcing higher than necessary earthquake building requirements on commercial landlords could only lead to higher vacancy rates and higher insurance premiums. Audio

A legal dispute over setting stricter building standards in Christchurch, has been thrown out for the third and final time. Audio

RDU's Spanky Moore gets inside contemporary New Zealand hit tunes - this week he takes a scalpel to Lawrence Arabia's Silver Scroll Award-winning 'Apple Pie Bed'. 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

The Christchurch City Council has revealed the price tag attached to regaining its accreditation to issue building consents - 10-million-dollars. Audio

A Canterbury emergency services first has taken place at Christchurch's gondola on the steep, windswept Port Hills. 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

RDU's Spanky Moore gets inside contemporary New Zealand hit tunes - this week he dissects Flip Grater's 'I'm Already Gone'. Audio

Dunsandel engineer, concluding his discussion of solar photovoltaic energy, and answering questions from listeners. Audio

North Loburn based press photographer Don Scott turns pine logs into horse jumping and construction poles on an old British made lathe. Audio

Funky Farmworkers Food coordinator, Jody Glassford. 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

One of New Zealand's oldest race cars is due to make a racetrack comeback in 2015, the 1959 Briggs Mercury V8 Special was built by Christchurch man Brian Briggs, the brother of three-time world… Audio

On New Zealand A to Z, we visit a small settlement on the southern shores of Lyttleton Harbour. We are still within the confines of Christchurch, but this place is quite remote from the sprawling city… Audio

The EQC has got the green light to start settling the claims of thousands of Christchurch people whose homes became more at risk of flooding after the earthquakes. 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