The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city council goes ahead with a plan to increase tree planting and cycle lanes. The reason?...

Back in April, the results of the 2008 Quality of Life survey were released. They showed that Christchurch was New Zealand’s safest city, with less than 100 crimes per 100,000 people. They survey also showed that, despite those facts, 64.5 per cent of..

Christ Church Cathedral after which “Christchurch Square” was named.
In 1860 Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the Cathedral inEngland the building not finished until 1904.

The foundation stone laid in 1864. In the...

Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city has been shown to be the country’s safest. Christchurch has recorded 100 violent offenses per 10,000 population – lower than Wellington, Auckland, South Auckland, Hamilton and Dunedin....

Christchurch’s Central City Business Association manager Paul Lonsdale has told The Press that he is exploring plans to install speakers in Stewart Plaza, a part of the central business district, to play “nice, easy listening” music to calm...

Christchurch based National MP Nicky Wagner told The Press today that she has spoken to several taxi drivers and company owners since the murder of driver Abdulrahman Ikhtiari, an Afghan immigrant earlier this month. She said that “Several said...