Prebbleton residents are divided on whether to chop their land up as the pressure goes on from Selwyn District Council and developers to intensify the area.
Volunteers at the much-loved Lincoln Community Gardens were almost ready to pack up and move out of the old maternity hospital site when some very good news arrived.
Joyriding youths who have been allegedly stealing vehicles in a Canterbury township are believed to be responsible for spray-painting an obscene phrase onto a couple's new home.
Developers at Prebbleton are proposing to push the township boundary out across rural land to the southwest with 527 new sections, bordered by the national electricity grid.
Canterbury man Kevin Burney has returned home from hospital with wife Amanda after he was almost killed when a drum he was working on exploded in his driveway.