Canterbury

A rural addiction rehabilitation facility near Christchurch runs a farm-focused social enterprise that connects its residents with planting, growing and sharing.

The High Court has ruled against building contractors CPB in its bid to suspend or stop work on Christchurch's new sports and recreation centre.

Two dozen people have been arrested, the culmination of an investigation that lasted over a year, police say.

Tickets on the Greater Christchurch Metro Network will be paid by debit card or devices to make it safer for drivers and passengers.

The deputy prime minister says the NZ First leader's tweets on what Dame Jacinda Ardern knew about the 15 March terror attacks before they happened are "bizarre" and incorrect.

Police have named the cameraman who died from critical injuries received during a routine skydive near Aoraki, Mount Cook last week.

A photographer has died after being injured while skydiving.

A builder harassed his former clients with a flurry of threatening emails and even made an unfounded complaint to Immigration NZ after they asked him for their deposit back for work he didn't…

The man has been granted name suppression and has been remanded on bail.

Police say several vehicles were involved in the accident in Spotswood, just north of Cheviot.

A pocketknife and baton were among items police seized from a Canterbury University hall of residence last week.

Tai Rāwhiti chalked up the highest participation rate in the country for the third year running during this year's annual earthquake and tsunami drill.

A two-year farm cadet programme is turning fresh-faced school leavers in hardy, no-nonsense shepherds on a high-country station in Canterbury.

Banded dotterel nests in the Waimakariri River have disappeared after Defence Force vehicles were seen doing driver training in the area.

Incoming cruise ship passengers will be bussed straight from Lyttelton's port to Christchurch.

A young man who switched from working in insurance to working the land was one of the finalists for Beef and Lambs emerging leaders award.

Transport safety investigators are calling for better safety measures at level crossings, following a near collision between a bus and a freight train in Christchurch.