Mid Canterbury is a culturally diversifying and ageing population according to the latest census data. It also had a moderate ...

Ashburton’s second bridge will be on the fast track to construction - once the funding is sorted. The government revealed the ...

Food rescue, refugees, and relocation made for another busy year for Safer Mid Canterbury. Safer Mid Canterbury general ...

A stopbank realignment project won’t be finished as planned this year but Environment Canterbury is busy extracting gravel ...

A Timaru man was told he was making the lives of those around him "miserable”, according to a district court judge. Zenath Richard Wishart, 23, was charged with threatening grievous bodily harm in the ...

Keegan Gentle’s daily ritual involves chainsaws, trees and good communication. “I’ll set up for chipping and dragging ...

Removing cell phones from schools is a positive step, but Sport Canterbury says something has to “fill the void" or students will potentially fill it with trouble. Sport Canterbury’s sector support ...

Delivery has improved but still needs to be better in the Ashburton District. That was Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown’s reaction to the council having just over $10m of carry-over projects from the ...

He’s not calling to a goose – although there are a few at his sanctuary at Riverbridge Conservation Park. Russell Langdon is calling a weka, a New Zealand native swamp bird, as if it’s a domesticated ...

Time for a check up - 11 people discovered they needed to see a doctor after a check up in the Carrfields rural health van. 40 patients went through the van during its recent stop at Ashburton’s ...

"At the moment, we’ve got two appliances and a tanker.” “It’s not a huge job that we’re looking at, it’s a garage that’s on fire.” “We got the call just after 11.05am.” “They’ve been in attendance now ...