Canterbury

Kymani Hiley-Hetaraka suffered an unsurvivable head injury while ice-skating on a school outing.

A witness says she remembers a man accused of multiple rapes telling her to stop crying after she woke to find him on top of her.

A teenager remains in a critical condition after being rushed to hospital from a Christchurch ice-skating rink on Tuesday morning.

A man on trial for more than 30 charges of sexual assault is accused of raping women who were so drunk they had been vomiting or were unconscious.

The person was taken to Christchurch Hospital after an incident at the sports centre.

A shallow grave was found on a previously-searched farm today. New information prompted the police investigation team to return.

New leads had prompted another search of a farm area for the Christchurch real estate agent who has been missing more than a year.

Lake Camp has been a summer recreational mecca for over half a century - but families fear it will be too dry to use this summer.

Questions over why Canterbury nurses are calling in sick more often than others have left a bad taste in workers' mouths.

Fiona McKenzie founded Christchurch's Inclusive Performance Academy four years ago for people with disabilities to write, act and show off their choreography skills. Video

A vehicle crashed and went up in flames near the Lyttelton Tunnel early Saturday morning.

It was supposed to be a new business opportunity encompassing a three storey mixed use townhouse. But what the couple got was not what they thought they signed up for.

It comes after the council's chairperson was reinstated, despite being formally warned.

Selwyn District Councillors have voted to review the deadline by which residents living in the Upper Selwyn Huts must leave.

But they have found one tiger that was "slightly underweight" in their urgent assessment of the zoo.

Selwyn District Councillors are considering reviewing the deadline by which residents living in the Upper Selwyn Huts must leave.

A community trust is hoping to find a more permanent solution to the town's housing woes.

A gorilla that died had suffered "a bacterial infection that had never before been known to science", an Orana Wildlife Park board member says.

"You could see something was going to unfold, then all of a sudden there were punches being thrown," an eyewitness said.

The transport agency says a spate of accidents on the Tekapo-Twizel Highway have caught it "on the hop" and it is mulling new solutions.