Canterbury

The sheep are being dagged at Carl and Tori Uren's Le Bons Bay farm this week. The couple produce cross-bred wool at the scenic Banks Peninsula property, but it's actually high country merino wool…

People are being urged to stay out of the backcountry in parts of the South Island, until stormy weather passes.

Over two days police made 137 patrols, carried out 15 search warrants and executed 43 arrest warrants, leading to taking 50 people into custody.

A former Christchurch City councillor says a council organisation set up to reinvigorate quake-damaged areas has been hamstrung by a lack of funding and micromanagement.

Three mayors and thousands of road users are hoping to overturn a snow chain ban across Arthur's Pass, or come to a compromise with the Transport Agency.

A Christchurch residents' group is calling on the council to dump the regeneration group currently tasked with the job of revamping their local shopping area.

There is a "dire and urgent" need to redevelop the Canterbury museum, which could be funded as a 'shovel-ready' project to help stimulate the economy, its director says. Audio

Lincoln University PhD student Cameron Marshall is studying a genetic line for a trait in dairy cows that leads to less nitrogen in urine.

A sizeable crowd was already waiting before the skifield opened, including Ben Yorston, who was first in line for the eighth year in a row. Video

The murder of pregnant 21-year-old mother Angela Blackmoore in Christchurch in 1995 has been described as a cold-blooded execution.

Christchurch's historic Isaac Theatre Royal is gradually restarting operations after being shut due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

Leftfield Innovation is looking for ways farmers can use their land to make high value food products that consumers want. It's investigating six crops we currently import but could grow and then use…

Sorry seems to be the hardest word, or so goes the Elton John song. Unless of course, you're the Earthquake Commission.

The Waimakariri District Council has given a group wanting to establish a water sports park in red zone land in Kaiapoi a two-year lease on the land.

Award winning wagyu beef farmers Evan and Clare Chapman were going to cut down a row of willows at their Kakahu property until they discovered a colony of long-tailed bats/pekapeka had made the old…