Canterbury

The person was taken to Christchurch Hospital after an incident at the sports centre.

A shallow grave was found on a previously-searched farm today. New information prompted the police investigation team to return.

New leads had prompted another search of a farm area for the Christchurch real estate agent who has been missing more than a year.

Lake Camp has been a summer recreational mecca for over half a century - but families fear it will be too dry to use this summer.

Questions over why Canterbury nurses are calling in sick more often than others have left a bad taste in workers' mouths.

Fiona McKenzie founded Christchurch's Inclusive Performance Academy four years ago for people with disabilities to write, act and show off their choreography skills. Video

A vehicle crashed and went up in flames near the Lyttelton Tunnel early Saturday morning.

It was supposed to be a new business opportunity encompassing a three storey mixed use townhouse. But what the couple got was not what they thought they signed up for.

It comes after the council's chairperson was reinstated, despite being formally warned.

Selwyn District Councillors have voted to review the deadline by which residents living in the Upper Selwyn Huts must leave.

But they have found one tiger that was "slightly underweight" in their urgent assessment of the zoo.

Selwyn District Councillors are considering reviewing the deadline by which residents living in the Upper Selwyn Huts must leave.

A community trust is hoping to find a more permanent solution to the town's housing woes.

A gorilla that died had suffered "a bacterial infection that had never before been known to science", an Orana Wildlife Park board member says.

"You could see something was going to unfold, then all of a sudden there were punches being thrown," an eyewitness said.

The transport agency says a spate of accidents on the Tekapo-Twizel Highway have caught it "on the hop" and it is mulling new solutions.

Fire and Emergency has evacuated four properties as a large fire burns near the scene of recent crashes on the main highway.

The team behind a cycleway from Picton to Kaikōura has called on the council to keep the job moving as it looks to ramp up construction.

Blackmail charges against a person accused of attempting to blackmail a Christchurch-based public figure following a paid sexual encounter have been dropped.

Her baby was born pale and floppy, and later died in the Christchurch NICU.