Earlier this week Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee ruled out any government intervention to address the serious shortage of rental properties that Christchurch is now effected by as a result of the major earthquakes it has suffered. Instead of Government intervention, Brownlee has...

In the film The Godfather, Marlon Brando, who plays mob boss Don Corleone, utters one of the most famous and ominous lines in movie history when he states ‘I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse’. For my wife and I, being a Red Zone property owner in Christchurch is...

A massive debate erupted here in Christchurch last week when the Anglican Bishop of Christchurch announced that repairing or rebuilding the Christchurch Cathedral is going to be cost-prohibitive, and so they now have no choice but to retrieve the articles of importance it contains and then...

Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which struck our city at 12:51pm on February 22nd last year, killing 185 people and injuring approximately 11,000 others. One small mercy we can be grateful for is the fact that the major earthquake we had here in September...