A meeting for the Waiho River rating district at Franz Josef should be convened before the end of the current term of the West Coast Regional Council, a councillor says.
Police have a major lead in identifying ram-raiders who smashed their way into a dairy south of Christchurch this morning - one of the offenders wasn't masked. It was one of several stores targeted in Canterbury overnight by different groups.
Southern candidates failing to tell voters about links to a high-profile disinformation group could be "introducing a cancer that is going to undermine democracy", a Dunedin academic says.