Canterbury

Sam Wilshire is proposing that councillors should refund their salaries to match any rate rise over inflation.

Timaru Boys' High School has shut for the day after an anonymous email threat was sent to students.

The mother of a 17-year-old killed when Kyan Stack drove under the influence of drugs has described her ongoing suffering.

A new, cheaper restoration plan could halve the massive $85 million funding shortfall that saw work stopped last year.

Music fans scrambling for tickets to Christchurch's Electric Avenue festival have vented their anger and frustration at missing out.

Andrei Moore says having to drive a few hundred metres down the road because there's no safe way to walk to the park 'is just nuts'. Audio

Fire and Emergency says four fire trucks and a command unit were sent to a Sockburn property where they put out a small fire.

A $95,000 bronze sculpture stolen from a Christchurch community centre has been destroyed for scrap, say police.

A new study aims to understand the ongoing impacts of the terrorist attack on the Muslim community.

Retirement village living should feel like home, but in some cases residents have the status of students in a hostel

Fire and Emergency is responding to a scrub fire on the Port Hills, near the Christchurch Adventure Park.

One person was airlifted to hospital, after being seriously injured in a rural area north of Christchurch.

Emergency services were called, after a person fell into trash at a Christchurch transfer station.

A spat between rural neighbours erupted when one took a digger and carved up a driveway during a confrontation.

Snowfall warnings are in place for a clutch of South Island mountain passes, with flurries forecast to 200 and 300 metres for parts of Fiordland, Southland and Dunedin.

After a lifetime of working to clear land, Chris Bolderston is rewilding parts of his sheep and beef farm in North Canterbury.

"A teenage Nancy Drew could've done a better job," his lawyer says.

Police said items on fire were thrown at the fence of the gang pad in the early morning.

Candidates promising a zero rate rises are ''living in la la land'', says Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon.