Traffic pressure on the Lewis Pass since the Kaikoura quake may have led to a fatal crash.

New quake rebuild minister stunned at amount of work still to be done seven years on.

Researchers are hopeful a new test will detect kidney damage reliably and early.

"All the cries for help fell on deaf ears," father says. Distressing content.

A vitamin-mineral treatment could help kids with ADHD, new Kiwi-led research suggests.

People are urged to stay well away from flooded roads with water levels remaining high.

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.

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.

The second man to walk on the moon is in good hands at Christchurch Hospital - he is being cared for by David Bowie.

Some will wait to 2020 to join scheme

Dramatic details have been revealed of an incident which left a teenage boy seriously injured at a Christchurch trampoline park.

Serious injuries reported at city's new 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.

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.

District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.

A patient who died after an incident at Christchurch's Hillmorton Hospital was left unresponsive for 12 hours before medical attention was sought, his family say.

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.