Chris Buick's attack on his heavily-pregnant former partner only stopped when she lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.

Two children have narrowly avoided injury after almost being struck by a train this evening.

A convicted killer has today admitted going on a prison rampage that caused $6000 worth of damage in December.

The death is not believed to be suspicious, a police spokeswoman said.

The Ministry of Social Development is awaiting sentencing on breach of health and safety legislation after the 2014 Ashburton Work and Income office killings.

Only five days into November, 10 people have already died on our roads, and police fear another 60 to 70 people could be killed before the end of the year.

A motorcyclist who went under a milk tanker that caught fire in a crash near Ashburton this afternoon has died.

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The Court of Appeal has confirmed a hearing date next year for Work and Income double-killer Russell John Tully.

A man was stabbed to death overnight.

The Ministry of Social Development may have to pay millions to make Work and Income offices safer for staff.

Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.

A coroner has ruled Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley died from a massive blow to her head on the day she went missing.

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The Ashburton Council has reneged on its deal to sell commercial land to a Chinese company planning to bottle water for export.

The June 30 deadline for Silver Fern Farms and Chinese food group Shanghai Maling Aquarius will be missed.

The fallout from Silver Fern Farms' decision to axe the bobby calf kill at the co-operative's Fairton plant impacts Mid Canterbury region.

A large gang fight in Ashburton involving weapons has resulted in police making nine arrests.

A person has died after being struck by a freight train in Mid Canterbury this morning.

The driver of a stolen car was caught by police after crashing into a KFC in Ashburton.

Pilot who was forced to make emergency landing accidentally starved chopper of fuel and had not flown aircraft for five years.

CCTV footage of masked gunman Russell John Tully from inside the Ashburton Work and Income bloodbath can be shown for the first time.

Her mother, aunt and grandmother died of breast cancer. Samantha Pooke is opting for surgery to ensure she survives.

Russell John Tully denies murdering Work and Income front-counter workers Peggy Turuhira Noble and Susan Leigh Cleveland on September 1 last year.

A trial for the man accused of last year's Work and Income shootings in Ashburton, which was due to begin on Monday, has been delayed until next year.

Friends, colleagues and community members gathered this morning to mark one year since two women were killed during a shooting in Ashburton.

Four men were arrested after a bar-side brawl in Ashburton during the early hours of this morning.

A motorist who died in a fatal crash near Ashburton on Friday night has today been named by police.

Ashburton mother Cindy George and her three children were farewelled at an emotional service this morning.

A woman interviewed over a murder nearly two decades ago wants to change her police statement.