"Give me $27,500 in cryptocurrency or I will kill everyone at the school." That was the chilling late night email sent to Rolleston College staff and students.
Mayor Sam Broughton has defended Selwyn District Council’s decision to hold a three-week consultation on the future of water services, despite criticism the timeframe was too short.
Residents will ultimately decide whether they will pay for more bus services in the Selwyn district with consultation starting on Friday.
Within 24 hours, a family had their lives turned upside down.
A Canterbury mum took her 2-year-old daughter to the doctor for what she thought was an iron deficiency or preschool illness. But by the next day, the plucky toddler had been diagnosed with leukaemia.
A pharmacy owner is one of more than 100 people opposing a planned new bottle store next to Leeston's Fresh Choice supermarket.
Rolleston will get three new medical centres over the next six months to alleviate pressure on GP services.
Consultation starts today on the future of the Selwyn district’s water services. Reporter Daniel Alvey unpacks the options and finds out why it is happening.
Residents in the Selwyn district want greenbelts protected as towns continue to get closer to each other.
For John Boulton, fighting a parking ticket in court was about more than getting off the $40 fine from the Selwyn District Council.
Name a plant and Lincoln University Associate Professor Tim Curran and his team have probably burnt it in the name of science.
There are less than 1000 tickets left for a popular 1980s-focused music festival.
A Rolleston man is claiming a moral victory after losing his battle against Selwyn District Council to have a parking ticket waived.
A Rolleston man is claiming a moral victory after losing his battle against Selwyn District Council to have a parking ticket waived.
Whether sports clubs in the Selwyn district will face increased alcohol restrictions will likely be known tomorrow.
The Selwyn District Council appears to have struck an impasse over its bid to enforce an abatement notice issued to the owner of a car wrecking yard.
Former Christchurch city councillor Ali Jones is looking to topple deputy mayor Pauline Cotter in the ward she lost by the slimmest of margins last election.
Selwyn Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall is not backing down about his comments towards a ratepayer who laid a complaint against him.
If Sam Broughton is re-elected in October's local body elections, it will be his fourth consecutive term, equalling the late Michael McEvedy as the longest-serving mayor of Selwyn.
No publicity stunts to see here. That’s what Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger says after he shifted an abandoned and graffitied trailer unit a day before he launched his re-election campaign.
