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Guitarist Lucy Hughes says her bandmates didn't believe it when she told them.

Split Enz leads a star-studded line-up for Australasia's biggest music festival in Christchurch this weekend.

It is the second critical IT failure in less than a month, the union says.

Police say the person had been in a critical condition in Christchurch Hospital.

Motorists know those teeth-clenching experiences while learning to drive. Ashley Gore wants to help make them a thing of the past.

Advocates are calling for change after the latest data on material hardship showed the statistics had not changed compared to the year prior.

Amy van Zwanenberg and Lucy Stevens were giving evidence at a coronial inquest into the deaths during Cyclone Gabrielle.

St John treated four people at the scene.

The council lifted the ban on swimming in the area, excluding Tarakena Bay.

Children only get one chance at childhood - and action is needed now, Claire Achmad says. Audio

Some parents are exhausted from acknowledging their child's every feeling and sifting through advice.

This luscious documentary remarkably finds a way to do something new with its much-documented subject.

A biosecurity operation is under way after the male fly was discovered in a surveillance trap.

Te Puna residents are taking golf clubs and a large tokotoko with them when they go for a walk, using them to fight off wandering dogs. Audio

Staff are yet to see a cent for their last weeks of work.

Police say they know the likely route taken by a vehicle of interest away from where the body of Sharlen Smith was found.

A police officer found the body near Parkers Creek.

"There's nothing more reassuring than being told that what you're going through is normal."

Ramadan means about 30 evenings around the table and we eventually ask: What are we making tonight?

A crash and a stopped vehicle forced the closure of one northbound and one southbound lane.