Star Christchurch

Asian candidates with aspirations of winning a local government seat in Canterbury could do far worse than look to former Christchurch city councillor Jimmy Chen for inspiration.

A lack of snow has forced the Mt Cheeseman Ski Area to abandon its plans to open this season.

Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust chair Phil Bagshaw says the public deserves to know how much Health NZ is paying private hospitals to perform elective surgeries under a new national contract.

Politicians are taking credit for their role in securing $38.5m of Government funding for the Pages Rd bridge replacement. Reporter Dylan Smits takes a look back at the journey to 'build the bridge'.

The soldier convicted of trying to give restricted information to a person he thought was a foreign agent will serve his sentence at the Burnham Military Camp detention facility. So what is life like in the facility and is it different to a civilian prison?

A child who spent months at Hillmorton Hospital in Christchurch with severe obsessive compulsive disorder was sent home with just an hour of therapy a week, his mum says.

Up to 11 schools in Christchurch have been alerted to a man who has been approaching female pupils and offering cash for inappropriate favours.

Christchurch City Council chief executive Mary Richardson "respectfully declined any remuneration adjustment" when the performance committee, chaired by Mayor Phil Mauger, signalled it would recommend a pay rise.