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A man who held a woman hostage at gunpoint during a 15-hour standoff with police appeared before the Parole Board from a room at a Canterbury prison.

The man who murdered a woman on an Auckland bus in 2024 will spend at least 12 years behind bars.

A Canterbury aquaculture company that illegally supplied hundreds of thousands of live green-lipped mussels from a restricted area to an exporter has been fined $24,000.

Rescuers were told to hold back from saving a man and his dogs on top of his ute in a flooded Canterbury river unless something "catastrophic" happened, an emergency call log shows.