Susan Sandys

A 138-year-old Canterbury clothing store will be demolished and a new shop is set to be built in its place.

A new petition is calling on the Government to reconsider four-laning State Highway 1 between Rolleston and Ashburton.

Up-and-coming Canterbury ballet talent Tāmati Graham is home for about two months as he prepares for a second stint overseas.

Power was lost and three people were injured after two crashes on State Highway 1 in Canterbury last week.

Coastal dairy farm paddocks in Canterbury are being transformed into a high-production orchard.

Members of the Ashburton Photographic Society submitted a wide range of quality pics for their recent photojournalism competition.

It is the end of an era for a family dynasty of ownership at Ashburton’s oldest newspaper.

Internal combustion in a hay bale is suspected to have caused a large fire in Canterbury last week.

The driver "did a runner" after losing control of their car and crashing into a Hilton Haulage truck at a Canterbury intersection.

A seaside dairy farm in Canterbury is being turned into an apple orchard.

It took a bit of jockeying around but it was worth it to rescue two-year-old gelding, Ice, from a deep pit on a rural Rakaia property.

The chances of surviving cardiac arrest are just 11 per cent, the latest data shows, so 66-year-old Cantabrian David Bishop counts himself among the lucky ones.

The driver and passenger of a car that hit a stock truck while overtaking it in Canterbury on Thursday were lucky not to be seriously injured, say firefighters.

Suzanne Broomhall, 71, was seriously injured when she and her son were involved in a horrific crash while being driven in the St John health shuttle.