When Sarah Maindonald began working as a counsellor 24 years ago, she saw teenagers struggling with mental health issues, but barely ever a child.

The University of Canterbury has revealed its new post-earthquake design.

Highway crashes in Canterbury and Hawke's Bay are causing traffic delays this afternoon.

A driver allegedly assaulted another driver after they were involved in a crash in Christchurch this afternoon.

Lamingtons and cheese rolls will be on the menu when New Zealand's Scott Base celebrates its 60th year this weekend.

A milk tanker and two cars have crashed off SH1 near St Andrews in Canterbury.

Police are investigating after a bank robber pulled a gun on staff in Christchurch.

A group of uninsured homeowners in Christchurch have lost their bid to avoid costs for a legal battle with the Government.

One bonus has turned into a much bigger one for a Christchurch couple, now $624,922 richer.

A driver injured in a Christchurch crash was not wearing a seatbelt, police say.

Police are investigating a burglary and arson that happened in a Christchurch bar yesterday morning.

More than 20,000 students asked for an emergency derived grade following the Kaikoura earthquake.

Unionised resident doctors are reported to be working through the strike at some hospitals.

The wait is over - NCEA results are now available.

The shocking footage was captured near Lake Tekapo in the South Island.

The city council is applying to Environment Canterbury to continue discharging untreated wastewater into the waterways and harbours in emergencies.

Police were called after school holiday programme staff noticed a man talking to a child in the playground.

A large vegetation fire that came within five metres of a new Blenheim subdivision and forced the evacuation of 60 homes was deliberately lit, authorities have confirmed.

Emergency services were called to the incident on the Otematata-Kurow Rd section of the highway near Lake Aviemore shortly before 4pm.

A Christchurch mother who objected moves to exhume her son five years after he died, has now been buried alongside him.

The playful and curious orca entertained those on the boat for about 20 minutes.

This is New Zealand from 400 kilometres above the earth.

The mother of a teen-boy killed in a triple-fatality car crash in Canterbury has forgiven the young man who was behind the wheel on December 26.

South Island locals and international visitors will this week be able to visit Kaikoura by bus again for the first time since last year's earthquake.

Motorists travelling between the West Coast and Canterbury today were urged to go through Lewis Pass after an early morning fire at

A man has been stabbed in Christchurch following a heated argument over a dog.

A person is dead after a van crashed into a bridge and became submerged in water in mid-Canterbury this morning.

Cantabrians will need to batten down the hatches as wild weather is expected this afternoon.

A jab for a pregnant woman can protect her baby

The driver killed in a two car crash south of Christchurch yesterday was driving on the wrong side of the road, police say.