A Christchurch school has been placed in lockdown after police advised staff of an incident in the area. Police said in a statement they were called to the area around 2pm on Tuesday, after a car ...

It wasn't exactly a downpour but it got Hamish Griffen nervous. Lying in bed last Sunday night, he desperately did, and did not, want to draw back the curtain and look out the window. "Throughout the ...

Christchurch is getting a direct flight to the Cook Islands next year. Air New Zealand’s seasonal service to Rarotonga means South Islanders won’t need to go through Auckland to reach the Pacific ...

Despite the devastation in Christchurch caused by the February 22 earthquake, organisers of the annual SBS Christchurch marathon have decided by popular request that the show must go on. For 30 years ...

A legionella outbreak which claimed three lives is likely to have originated in an unmonitored cooling tower, a coroner has ruled. Wanaka Coroner Richard Savage yesterday released the results of an ...

Westpac is teaming up with Lumley Insurance to offer insurance policies for new Canterbury construction projects and full replacement home and contents policies. The bank said the new policies would ...

A member of the Christchurch whanau evicted from an earthquake welfare centre was a founding member of a Mongrel Mob chapter. A senior police officer told The Press that Noel Martin helped found the ...

As m'learned friends of the media would say, a packed Christchurch courtroom heard NZ Opera's latest production of Gilbert and Sullivan's enduring, and endearing, Trial by Jury. If NZ Opera was ...

Someone in Christchurch woke up $500,000 richer this morning thanks to a lucky lotto ticket bought from the Lincoln Rd Supervalue. They'll be sharing the prize with an Auckland ticket holders after ...

England and Australia will visit Christchurch to "raise the spirits of the city" during the Rugby World Cup. Both teams had been among those scheduled to play matches in Christchurch, but the deadly ...