A child is dead and and five others are seriously injured - two critically - following a crash between two vehicles in Canterbury today.

Two men who dropped a man off at Christchurch Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head have been identified by police.

A man who strangled his sex worker wife with her own underwear was released on parole, but was sent back to jail after he was caught approaching prostitutes.

The Easter weekend road toll stands at one this morning, with less than one day to go in the holiday period.

The Easter weekend road toll stands at one this evening after a two-car collision earlier today.

Two men who drove a man with a gunshot wound to the head to Christchurch Hospital overnight are being sought by police.

A major disruptive play will be launched in the Chinese baby formula market in Beijing today which could ultimately have a big impact - some say seismic - on the price paid for imported product by....

Missing Canterbury woman Torrie Amstad, 19, has been found, Canterbury Police say.

A person has died in an incident involving a tractor on a farm near Oxford in Canterbury, police say.

The Quake Outcasts group have had a partial victory in their appeal against the Government's buyout offers following the Canterbury earthquakes.

A Taiwanese tourist driver and widow who killed her own father after running a stop sign has today been shown mercy by a judge.

A teenager who died when a car he was travelling in crashed down a steep bank has today been named by police.

She came to New Zealand to recover from depression brought on by her partner's death in a motorcycle crash.

A tourist driver who ran a stop sign, causing a crash that killed her father, was recovering from depression caused by her partner's death in a motorbike crash.

The father of a girl killed in a crash caused by a Dutch businessman says safety messages are not getting through to tourist drivers.

Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an response to Auckland's housing shortage, the Reserve Bank governor says.

A Taiwanese tourist killed in a crash in Canterbury last week has been named.

The historic Craigieburn Station, in the central Canterbury foothills, has come up for sale for the first time in 98 years.