Bar owner calls no-show customers 'tossers'
A Christchurch bar was not happy after a party of 40 booked - but only half showed up.
A Christchurch bar was not happy after a party of 40 booked - but only half showed up.
Mental health managers say the care of intellectually disabled has reached "crisis point".
International research suggests half could have been avoided or minimised.
Young family stuck in New Zealand and unable to take their sick baby home on plane.
The Canterbury DHB and the Asthma & Respiratory Foundation have issued warnings about smoke inhalation for those affected by the Port Hills fires.
In the past year this health board has agonised over its finances and where budgets should be boosted or cut - all behind closed doors.
A health warning has been issued for a toxic algae bloom in a Canterbury river.
Three young teenagers died in a high-speed car crash when their vehicle, driven by a 14-year-old, slammed into a tree.
The Canterbury DHB faces mounting deficits if nothing changes, a PwC report shows.
Dramatic details have been revealed of an incident which left a teenage boy seriously injured at a Christchurch trampoline park.
Emergency doctors have seen a cluster of injuries linked to two new indoor trampoline parks in Christchurch, including fractures, lacerations and serious spinal injuries.
Gabrielle Stuart looked at what five years of belt-tightening for the CDHB could look like for the community.
Community services are worried about the effect five years of district health board shortfalls could have on them.
A former city councillor during the Sir Hamish Hay era is making a bid to return to local politics. Gabrielle Stuart reports.
Plans to build a new health hub and maternity unit in the central city, which were scrapped because of asbestos contamination, may still go ahead.
The cash-strapped Canterbury District Health Board's money problems have got worse.
Canterbury District Health Board members say an archaic piece of policy that gags them from speaking to media should be scrapped or reviewed.
All residents of a Christchurch rest home have been given antibiotics to curb an outbreak of strep A after the deaths of five elderly women.
Three cardiology transfer patients died after the Southern District Health Board started to transport patients to Christchurch when no service was available in the South.
Rest home staff who left an elderly woman's broken hip untreated for several days have been ordered to apologise and will be reviewed by the Nursing Council.
Residents of an understaffed rest home near Christchurch suffered from dehydration and weight loss, according to an official audit.