Mid Canterbury Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders and Ashburton Creative Fibre are hosting an open day to show people how they turn fleeces into material for spinning, weaving, knitting and crocheting.

Canterbury sisters Angelica and Erica Vargas were the first people to sit their driver's licence tests through a new Salvation Army programme now available in Ashburton.

Emergency services attended a spate of crashes in the Ashburton District over the past week, including one where a truck rolled on a potholed section of Beach Rd East.

Gym bunnies Julie and Pete Donald are celebrities at their local Methven gym.

Concerned users of an Ashburton street are calling for a public meeting over the lack of footpath and streetlights along a 500m stretch of Allens Rd.

Two people were transported to hospital after a single vehicle crash on Sunday morning at the Thompsons Track near Hatfield.

Ashburton Intermediate is one of six schools chosen to receive national government school infrastructure funding.