Today the Weekend Herald salutes the winners of the annual Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, which honour one of the country's greatest leaders, the late Sir Peter Blake.

"Girls' Day Out" trips to Ballantynes' small Timaru branch store are proving a huge hit.

Didi Zhang was last seen leaving for class at the King's Education language school in the CTV building on February 22, 2011.

A worker who hasn't been paid after his employer's business was shut down by the Christchurch earthquake has been awarded nearly $5000 in unpaid wages by the Employment Relations Authority.

The Crusaders will ask superstar first five-eighth Daniel Carter to run more in a bid to snap him out of a "quiet" patch.

The skiing outlook for the upcoming school holidays is better than it was, but what is really needed is a snow storm.

Taxpayers would pay most of the cost of repairing future earthquake damage to uninsured Christchurch infrastructure, a spokesman for Finance Minister Bill English says.

Decisions on the future of Christchurch's quake-hit schools will depend on the relocation plans of the city's red-zone residents.