It didn't have to be like this. The things that went wrong, and the things we still don't know:

Some intellectual sustenance - or is that comic relief? - for the citizens of the quake-it city.

Advocates of open source software immediately suspicious. UPDATED: CBD photos

GUEST COMMENT: The co-owner of a demolished building says the Crown is offering him less than the market value of hs land.

A new series of aerial photos shows the extent of Christchurch's CBD cleanout since the quakes.

GUEST COMMENT: The convictions of the Italian scientists for manslaughter has more relevance to NZ than you might think.