Kees Chalmers

A Lego piece left on a fireplace forced a family to vacate their smoke-logged house in Canterbury.

Well-known Sumner cricket identity Dan Vann is heading to Indonesia this week as the head coach of the Cook Islands women’s team at the Bali Bash.

Since she was eight, Canterbury photographer Lily McCondach has always had a camera in her hand.

Tchaikovsky, Judy Garland and The Beatles are just a few of the famous names to play at New York’s Carnegie Hall - and now a Canterbury schoolboy will join the prestigious list.

Snoops the cat never liked staying in the same place for too long.

The days of telling students to put away their devices may be fading as a groundbreaking new project moves learning about places like Banks Peninsula's Flea Bay from the classroom into the virtual world.

A big crowd is expected to watch the godwits take off from the Avon-Heathcote Estuary on their annual 14,000km journey to Alaska this weekend.

Flynn Adamson grew up listening to the music of his parents’ era - and now he has the chance to perform alongside some of those same artists at Selwyn Sounds this weekend.

Fishers who park their vehicles on the grass bank at the Beachville Esplanade are frustrating Redcliffs residents who say it damages the grass and blocks public use of the area.

No stopping restrictions are set to come into force close to a Christchurch median pedestrian crossing.

A sellout crowd of 3000 is expected at Kirwee Domain on Friday for the Crusaders Super Rugby pre-season match against the Blues.

Not much phases Shirley Boys’ High student and Otakaro goalkeeper Oscar van Onselen - not even a big move to the Wellington Phoenix Academy.

Getting rest home residents to safety quickly in the event of a tsunami is a focus of a new natural disaster evacuation plan in Sumner.