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Ian Mackenzie says being an Environment Canterbury councillor has been a frustrating experience and believes the organisation needs "a complete reset".

A lucky Canterbury family has won an international travel adventure as part of McAlpines Mitre 10 MEGA Rangiora's 50th birthday celebration.

Canterbury multi-disciplinary artist Mel Eaton laid out an ambitious set of goals at the start of the year, including leaving her full-time job and getting her first solo art exhibition.

Fresh, local and seasonal. That has been the vision behind the Totara Store, which opens its doors this week.

Plans for a $50,000 feasibility study into a proposed learning hub have been scrapped in favour of investigating ways to increase “the vibrancy” of the Ashburton CBD.

Parts of Canterbury are set to hit temperatures of 30 degrees tomorrow as northwesterly winds drive up the temperature for eastern parts of the South Island.

Hikers are risking their lives daily venturing into closed areas of a popular Canterbury national park track, where construction and explosive work is under way to build a new bridge, Doc says.