Journalist Peter Robert Douglas, 35, was wheelchair-bound all his life, but managed to achieve an awful lot in his tiny frame.

A father and son have been found safe and well this morning after spending a night in a at the base of a cliff following a kayaking trip that went wrong off the Canterbury coast.

A real estate agent has had a charge of serious negligence overturned in the High Court at Auckland, after she challenged a Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal decision.

Christchurch police have released the name of the skateboarder killed in an accident in Loburn, north of Rangiora, last night.

A three-year jail sentence for a truck driver who targeted and tried to have sex with an 8-year-old girl is "adequate", her grandfather says.

Life is never dull on the road with Grant the Cook, writes Jason Burgess.

The 'red zone' created in the aftermath of Christchurch's earthquakes was legal, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Possible further victims of a crooked Christchurch cop are being urged to come forward after the former senior officer admitted sex and corruption charges today.

A Christchurch police officer told a suspected drink driver that any charges would go away if she performed oral sex on him, a court heard today.

A paraponter spent about four hours perched precariously on a ridge with suspected spinal injuries after crashing in a remote Canterbury alpine range this afternoon.

A crowd of 60,000 is expected to turn out at the Canterbury A&P Show today on the region's anniversary public holiday.

A real estate agent's marketing statements should have been understood as "puffery and hyperbole" and were not misleading, a Tribunal finds.

Six fluffy blue ducklings will take their first outing, to an outside pool, for the first time this afternoon.

Archaeologists yesterday battled against the tide to rescue 14th century moa bones from a "significant" historical settlement at Awamoa Creek, south of Oamaru.

The motorcyclist knocked from a bridge into a flooded river by an out-of-control truck is out of hospital and aware he's lucky to be alive.

A truck driver thought he'd killed a motorcyclist when he lost control on a Canterbury bridge this morning, sending the rider plummeting into the freezing river below.

The bad weather bashing New Zealand has delayed the arrival of Canterbury's first major cruise ship of the summer season.

A serious motorbike crash has closed State Highway One in North Canterbury this afternoon.

A shallow earthquake has jolted Cantabrians this morning, even though it measured less than four on the Richter Scale.

Ministry for Primary Industries officials have approved an incursion programme in mid-Canterbury following a spillage of one of Europe's most invasive arable weeds - black grass - found in a consignment of imported fescue seed.

Apparently, our salmon are vicious fish that attack people and we like to be lacquered in molasses and feathers while hunting eggs.