A coroner has found no evidence to support claims that a husband ran over and killed his Christchurch schoolteacher wife deliberately or recklessly.

The mercury is dropping but Sarah Lawrence's spirits are rising as she heads south.

After beating cancer three times, Sarah is going on a road trip to the West Coast on scooters to raise money for the Cancer Society of New Zealand.

A heavy snow warning is in place for parts of the country and some main roads have closed.

Make sure you wrap up warm for the next few weeks - frigid temperatures are set to make August the coldest month of the year.

Contractors have today started digging up the site of the Canterbury Television building as part of the ongoing police probe to see if anyone is criminally liable for the disaster.

It wasn't a bargain that this couple had in mind when they went to the Warehouse in Timaru.

Armed police have raided a house in North Canterbury this morning, suspected to be linked to illegal drugs.

A light earthquake rattled Canterbury shortly after midnight on Sunday morning.

A coroner has ruled Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley died from a massive blow to her head on the day she went missing.

Fire crews are attending a large fire in central Christchurch early this evening.

Reporter Kurt Bayer takes to the skies to witness science in action, even if it makes his head hurt a little.

A man caught masturbating at a teenage girls' softball game has been sentenced to 12-months intensive supervision.

An office administrator bullied, abused and sexually harassed by her boss has been awarded $18,000 in compensation.

Christchurch's Redcliffs School will stay open, it has been announced.

Firefighters fear a person may be trapped inside a rural North Canterbury home that is engulfed by fire.

The man accused of murdering Christchurch woman Renee Duckmanton can be named.

Man sought over car theft.

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New Google feature to collate local seismic information and display it after a quick search, avoiding trawling through websites

Watching her sports mad son grow up Angela Dixon often wondered whether it was the right path for her son Elliot

Investigators seek cause of overnight blazes.

Three prisoners accused of murder after inmate dies in hospital.

A road rage driver who chased a "frightened" woman for 17km after she flashed her lights at him for driving on high beam has pleaded guilty to intimidation today.

Accused denies murder of man whose body was found by a Canterbury lake.

Girls at a Christchurch high school have been told to wear longer skirts because they are distracting for male teachers and students.

Government agencies are being accused of playing "fast and loose" with taxpayer money.

Fast-acting parents are thought to have curbed the spread of whooping cough from a Christchurch primary school.

Keagan Girdlestone came close to death after slamming into the back of a suddenly-braking race vehicle.