Star Mid Canterbury

Mount Hutt College principal Jack Saxon has international travel, artificial intelligence and baseball in his sights on his 12-week sabbatical.

Mid Canterbury is set to get four more frontline officers under the police restructure proposal. But the sole officer position at Rakaia will become a traffic policing position, while one of the two officer positions at Methven will go to Ashburton.

Six to eight months to repair the Tinwald rail viaduct is too long, a resident says.

A Canterbury playcentre is looking for a new premises for next year after its landlord, the school next door, opted not to renew its lease.

Deb Winter bought a stockpot and a flexi-tub at Mitre 10 Mega Ashburton - and won a brand-new $68k double cab ute.

A car plummeted off a road in the steep Rakaia Gorge after sliding on ice.