Major breweries are battling for market share as the taste for "quality" beer takes hold in supermarkets and pubs. Geoff Cumming follows the consumer-led revolution.

Cup day's Best Dressed Woman will auction off her prize-winning dress to raise money for two children who lost their mother in the February 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch's iconic Trotting Cup Day will be the biggest since the earthquakes began, organisers say.

A search and rescue expert used Oklahoma City bombing terrorist attack rescue techniques to take control of the CTV Building collapse site, an inquest heard today.

A top doctor is urging pregnant women not to panic about high nitrate levels in Mid Canterbury water - despite earlier spotlighting the potentially fatal health risks.

A Fire Service has disagreed strongly with some earlier witnesses at the CTV inquest that there was confusion over leadership on February 22 last year.

The continuing obstinacy of courts, police and government is thankfully no match for the determination of Joe Karam, writes Sir Bob Jones.

A man has been arrested for an alleged assault which left another man with serious head injuries in the South Canterbury town of Temuka.

Search and rescue units were told to stop scouring the collapsed CTV Building's rubble for survivors within 24 hours of it coming down.

Flying debris and trees and branches falling across roads could make it unsafe to be outside if predicted severe northwest gales hit Otago and Southland today.

The green-zoning of a final eight residential properties in the Port Hills of Christchurch marks the end of the zoning process in Canterbury.

The signature of Sir Edmund Hillary has been rediscovered at Mid Canterbury's Double Hut, after it was last spotted there in 2002.