A driver caused a crash that fatally injured his mate, then left him to die by the roadside before fleeing to the Gold Coast, a court was told today.

The Green Party would push for almost half a billion spending over five years on public transport in Christchurch.

National's election war-chest has been given a half-million dollar boost by the estate of a wealthy Christchurch businessman.

A New Zealand-built rocket has shattered an altitude record after reaching speeds in excess of 2000 km an hour.

Employment growth slowed in the June quarter and outside Canterbury it stalled altogether.

Bevan Hurley sees stars over millions of light years from one of only four dark-sky reserves on Earth, from Mt John Observatory, near Lake Tekapo.

Christchurch City Council has revealed it faces a funding black hole of up to $900 million to help rebuild the earthquake-wrecked city. So does that mean asset sales?

A body was found inside a Christchurch house overnight in what police are at this stage treating as a suspicious death.

A building crisis in Canterbury could be as widespread as the leaky home issue, lawyers say.

The road around Banks Peninsula is steeped in history, finds Wendy Dunlop.

The foreign driver who ran a stop sign and killed three people would "hurt for the rest of his life", a close friend said last night.

Two brothers who starved horses so badly they had to be shot by animal welfare officers have been jailed and banned from owning horses for five years.

Editorial: It is easy to sympathise with Local Govt NZ's misgivings about Labour's plan to take EQC levies off insurance premiums and add them to rates bills.

Jim Anderton asks: 'Take a good look at the Cathedral as it still stands today, (taken from a helicopter on June 7, 2014), and ask yourself does this look like a ruin to you?'