This spot is a favourite with Kiwis and visitors year-round, says Elisabeth Easther.

A $30,000 reward has been posted to help find a Canterbury woman missing for six years.

A widespread computer fault meant that nearly 6000 hospital patients’ electronic discharge documents were not sent to their GPs.

Ashburton Police are warning the public to take extreme care on the roads in the Canterbury region due to reports of black ice.

Great fiestas, beaches and eateries abound, says Elisabeth Easther.

Police are expecting a quieter morning in Canterbury with less ice to make the roads treacherous.

The young woman who died yesterday when her vehicle skidded out of control on black ice and hit a school bus has been named.

A build-up of snow and ice on lines, as well as tree branches being weighed down on lines, caused outages to around 4700 customers around the western areas of the Canterbury Plains yesterday.

Around 1500 people in Canterbury are likely to remain without power overnight, after a snow storm battered the region today.

A group of trampers has been rescued from a Canterbury mountain range after being trapped overnight.

A quantity of chemicals has been stolen from University of Canterbury's chemistry department -- including some which could be used to manufacture illegal drugs.

Two minor earthquakes hit central parts of both main islands today.

The digger driver killed in a quarry landslide will be farewelled on Monday.

A mentally-handicapped man, with the mental age of a 9-year-old, was accidentally strangled to death after becoming entangled in electrical bed wires.

Digger driver Murray Taylor, who was buried in a mammoth quarry landslide, has been remembered as a great bloke after hopes of finding him alive faded yesterday.

The former boss of the North Canterbury limestone quarry where a landslip is feared to have killed a digger operator yesterday has spoken of previous brushes with death and bemoaned the lack of regulation in the industry. Murray Taylor, the owner of Heathstock Haulage that operates the limestone mine, is believed to have died after he was buried under a rockfall yesterday.

The former boss of the quarry where a landslip is feared to have killed a digger operator yesterday has spoken of previous brushes with death.

The digger driver buried under 1000 tonnes of rubble has been named as Murray Taylor.

A person is dead and another seriously injured after a crash in south Canterbury this afternoon.

There's no shortage of options for keen skiers in the South Island, writes Jane Jeffries.

A Canterbury rugby league legend, known at his club simply as ‘The Godfather’, has died suddenly during a training session on the eve of his 300th and final match.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

A Christchurch pedestrian has been taken to hospital after she was knocked down by a vehicle in the central city this morning.

It took just eight seconds to bring down the former police station in Christchurch. Watch video of the controlled implosion here.

A female motorbike passenger has died after she was knocked into the path of an oncoming car, and then flung underneath a van in Canterbury today.