The Canterbury Television building's flawed design and construction went unnoticed by Christchurch City Council officials who issued its consents. And a known weakness in its structure was not ...

New Zealand police announced last November they would not prosecute anyone over the flattening of the Canterbury Television (CTV) building in Christchurch. The building collapsed in a 6.3 magnitude ...

SYDNEY (AP) — A six-story office building that collapsed and killed 115 people in New Zealand’s devastating earthquake last year was poorly designed by an inexperienced engineer, inadequately ...

While large parts of New Zealand are reeling from the flooding caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which killed 11 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, February 22 marked the twelfth ...

CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z. — Veteran television producer Rob Cope Williams was out in the field Tuesday, working on his weekly farm report, eating lunch at a countryside hotel, when he felt the jolt. He and ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New ZealandCHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The owners of a building that collapsed in the New Zealand earthquake, killing up to 120 people, say a recent engineers report found no problems ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand's police said they would investigate whether criminal negligence contributed to the collapse of the Christchurch CTV building during an earthquake more than three ...