Irritated firefighters had to educate a Canterbury man about the dangers of lighting a backyard rubbish fire after a neighbour saw the smoke and flames and phoned 111.
A popular water feature in the centre of a Canterbury town has had a $7000 health and safety upgrade after two accidents.
Consent has been granted to establish a 24-hour self-serve fuel station on State Highway 1 opposite the Ashburton Domain.
Ratepayers will fork out several thousand dollars to help a Rotary club dispose of 16 tonnes of unwanted material from an Ashburton book sale.
Mt Hutt Ski Area is trending towards a record ski season as it prepares to close for the year on Sunday.
Rakaia’s iconic salmon sculpture will be transported to Christchurch for a $297,000 refurbishment project.
With a hugely swollen belly, people would ask a 53-year-old Canterbury woman if she was pregnant. But it turned out to be a 38cm-wide, 21kg ovarian cyst.
With a hugely swollen belly, people would ask a 53-year-old Canterbury woman if she was pregnant. But it turned out to be a 38cm-wide ovarian cyst.
After rehoming almost 1000 pets, the SPCA Ashburton Centre on Seafield Rd will close on October 31.
WorkSafe will not intervene after a district council staff member threw a microwave off the top-floor balcony of a central Ashburton workplace.
It appears to be a case of 'yeah, nah' for NZTA when it comes to adding a roundabout to State Highway 1 at Rakaia.
Roundabout rumours have been going around in Rakaia. And NZTA has this week verified plans are being made to add one to SH1.
Building her own Lego creations is all about storytelling for Canterbury's Abby Woods.
Costs are yet to be confirmed for enhancing the tarāpuka bird nesting habitat in the Ashburton River ahead of the town’s second bridge project.
Land use consent has been granted for Rakaia’s Four Square to operate in the former Salmon Tales building. Now the supermarket is aiming for a pre-Christmas opening in the landmark building.
Mid Canterbury is set to get four more frontline officers under the police restructure proposal. But the sole officer position at Rakaia will become a traffic policing position, while one of the two officer positions at Methven will go to Ashburton.
Six to eight months to repair the Tinwald rail viaduct is too long, a resident says.
Two Rakaia greyhound trainers are quietly confident they will be able to continue doing what they have always done after July next year.
A car plummeted off a road in the steep Rakaia Gorge after sliding on ice.
A petition calling on the Government to reconsider four-laning State Highway 1 between Rolleston and Ashburton had over 465 signatures as of Thursday.