A Christchurch woman who turned personal tragedy into a life of service has been recognised with a special community award. Lynette Whitt was honoured on Friday evening for her voluntary work with ...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews have contained a vegetation fire in Canterbury. Crews were first alerted to the fire at the Waimakariri riverbed, near the Waimakariri Gorge Bridge, around 9pm ...

Thousands of overseas building products will be easier to use in New Zealand from tomorrow in a move the Government says will reduce costs and increase competition in the construction sector. Building ...

A person has died following the crash last night on State Highway 1/Rakaia Highway. The two-vehicle crash was reported to police around 7:20pm. A police spokesman said one person died at the scene, ...

A section of State Highway 1 north of Ashburton has been closed following a serious two-vehicle crash on Thursday evening. The highway is shut between Works Road and Fairview West Road, with emergency ...

The Government has announced $5.85 million in funding for the Tāwhaki Joint Venture, giving a major boost to the national aerospace centre based at Canterbury’s Kaitorete Spit. The funding will ...

The ACT Party is calling out what it describes as race-based discrimination in a major engineering firm’s internship recruitment process, warning the practice reflects a dangerous shift from ...

Fonterra Chief Executive Miles Hurrell has defended the high cost of dairy products in New Zealand, saying international demand and global pricing structures are driving domestic prices. The price of ...

Hospitals and health services across Christchurch will be impacted by a planned 24-hour strike involving nurses, healthcare assistants, and some midwives employed by Health New Zealand. The strike, ...

Christchurch Police are appealing for public assistance following a hit-and-run incident that left a cyclist seriously injured in Burnside earlier this week. Emergency services were called to the ...

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash at the intersection of Linwood Avenue and Buckleys Road in Christchurch. They were called to the area at 9.12PM after a vehicle flipped onto its roof. A ...

Former Christchurch singer Hayley Westenra has spoken of her heartbreak following the murders of two of her closest friends in Los Angeles. Robin Kaye, a long-time music supervisor for American Idol, ...