After the shock resignation of four Christchurch City Holdings board members on Wednesday, Business Canterbury is calling on the council to review its oversight of the city's strategic assets.
A Christchurch man and his company are facing charges relating to what Internal Affairs believes is the largest illegal lottery identified in NZ to date.
Four people have been arrested and police say they have seized a "significant amount" of illicit drugs in joint operations in West Coast and Canterbury.
A convicted killer's long-running battle to overturn a ban on sex between prisoners at a criminal treatment unit in Rolleston Prison has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
A man who orchestrated the importation of $5.5 million worth of methamphetamine into the country did so under the name of well-known Australian rugby figure Quade Cooper.
A man who met a young woman on a dating app while on a working holiday in NZ is to be deported later this year after he finishes a sentence of home detention for rape.
Snow is on the cards for the South Island this weekend with forecasters warning there could be heavy falls in parts of Canterbury, Otago and Southland.
The head of Rugby Southland says he has been “blindsided” by a council decision to halt maintenance and safety improvements at Invercargill's main ground.
Despite having an evolutionary history of more than 150 million years and surviving the extinction of dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is critically endangered in the Pacific region.
Carol Clay's daughter became concerned her mother's affair with Russell Hill would be made public when police approached her about telling media they had gone missing together, a jury has been told.