Kees Chalmers

Darryl Cribb has been single-handedly running the Lyttelton Arts Factory for the past 10 years, but he recently made the decision to step back.

The public is being urged to fight a potential plan to sell a section of Christchurch red zone land with a Māori burial ground dating back more than 600 years on it.

The final touches are being put on Coffee Culture Sumner’s refurbished site ahead of its reopening next month, 30 years after it first opened.

Hard work has defined Adam Whitelock’s life – whether preparing to start in midfield for the Crusaders or helping someone buy their first home.

There appears to be no easy way to ban freedom campers from parking up on Banks Peninsula.

What should Lyttelton’s identity be? A hippy paradise, a port town or a hub for art and culture?

'S**t, I hope he's not inside' was the immediate thought John Hill had when he went to drop some tomatoes off at his friend’s house found it engulfed in flames.

A multisport athlete who survived a harrowing fall on Mt Cook several years ago has died this week after a cycling collision in Christchurch last month.

A Christchurch city councillor is calling for safety improvements on Evans Pass Rd after a well-known multisport cyclist died in hospital following a crash.

The Sumner Ferrymead Foundation will close after 32 years of supporting Christchurch community organisations.

Eighteen months ago, Christchurch dad Henri Kerr went to the doctor. He was tired and getting headaches, which he put down to stress, and his doctor agreed. A month later, a CT scan revealed a large tumour on his left parietal lobe.

Down but not out staff and community members rallied to clean up the devastating flood damage at the Little River Café.

The legacy of four schools were remembered by more than 200 former teachers, pupils and families at the Lyttelton schools reunion.

Bill Jamieson was the Sumner Post Office postmaster during the 1950s. Now another Jamieson is in residence at the Nayland St post office building - his great-grandson William.

A hapū's century-long battle to get a Canterbury reserve officially recognised as a burial site has finally come to an end.

Mother nature’s farewell to John Rochford was not a kind one. His final crossing as a skipper on the Diamond Harbour-Lyttelton ferry was marked with 40 knot north easterly winds, blustery rain and choppy waters.

Modern and expensive homes line the streets of a Christchurch subdivision, but this one sticks out like a sore thumb.