It is 4am and Ngaire Alderson is starting work. Her 10-hour shift will see the 84-year-old make about 150 sandwiches at the Copenhagen Bakery in Christchurch.
A Christchurch restaurant owner who sold toxic food to customers and directed the recalled product to be eaten by her staff has received a reduced sentence.
The start of the oyster season has been challenging, with signs of a deadly parasite in Foveaux Strait, but a factory manager says it's better than in previous years.
A Christchurch restaurant owner has been sentenced to home detention and fined $20,000 for selling food that was recalled due to unsafe levels of bacteria.
A whisky made from locally grown barley and distilled with glacial waters from the Southern Alps has won a gold medal at the World Whisky Awards in London.