Bridget McMenamin worked on the Lisa Blakie murder inquiry. She has launched a Facebook page to investigate the 2000 case again.

One person has moderate to serious injuries after a car crash in rural South Canterbury this afternoon.

Kiwi anglers will be able to log their catch this summer - and contribute to data around our fish stocks - thanks to a free app.

Seven people, including an infant, went out on a small boat yesterday, but just the skipper was wearing a lifejacket.

Wet weather today will clear throughout the country making way for a mainly fine Christmas weekend.

The Canterbury DHB faces mounting deficits if nothing changes, a PwC report shows.

A legal settlement will stop vegetation being cleared without permission in Canterbury's picturesque Mackenzie Country.

Christmas Day should be fine but be ready for thunderstorms in the coming days.

Burglars snuck into the destroyed two-story house and stole the only salvageable items including a TV, a cabinet and food.

All Blacks great Richie McCaw flies with Santa into earthquake-battered Kaikoura today.

A Sydney conman who fleeced $500,000 out of a Christchurch man in a vending machine scam has today been jailed for 15 months and will

What will the weather be doing on Sunday for Christmas?

There was a record downpour in Auckland, a tornado in Taranaki and "quake lights" above Wellington. Oh, and 2016 was likely also New Zealand's hottest year on record.

A man who tied up three people in Christchurch is still on the run.

A Christchurch brothel owner stands to lose $2m after a judge ruled in favour of police.

Firefighters battled a blaze that gutted a two-story house in Christchurch this evening.

Geonet say there is a 98 per cent chance of an aftershock of 6 to 6.9 magnitude in the next year.

Police are seeking two young men after the aggravated robbery of a bus driver in Christchurch.

All Blacks great Richie McCaw and fiancee Gemma Flynn have splashed out on a spectacular $2.5m family home.

A group of Christchurch homeowners have been given the thumbs up to proceed with a class action against their insurer, Southern Response.

When Kaikoura locals told visiting PM Bill English the Govt effort was "piss poor" in the quake-strewn region, Gerry Brownlee let them have it.

A jealous truck driver who hit his neighbour and occasional lover with a garden gnome and bashed her to death with a metal bar has failed to get off his conviction.

Hundreds of people have lodged injury claims following last month's massive magnitude-7.8 earthquake.

People whose houses were damaged in last month's earthquake can apply for a $1000 Red Cross grant.

School leavers remarkably unaffected by earthquakes, surprising research finds.

A former Canterbury primary school principal who groomed a young boy before sexually assaulting him over half a decade was today jailed for more than nine years.

The quake struck just after midnight on November 14, causing massive fault line ruptures and slips, damaging buildings and closing key roads.

A truck has rolled, blocking one lane of State Highway 7 - the temporary main road between Picton and Christchurch.

Kaikoura has another $2.7 million to help it rebuild after being hit hard by the devastating earthquake last month.

COMMENT: A year after the earthquake, I stood outside the old chicken wire fence and stared in. All you could hear was the easterly.