A former Christchurch restaurateur has been fined $15,000 for his part in the black market seafood trade.

Lyttelton residents are worried the delay on the Timeball Station rebuild may cause the project to be abandoned altogether.

City council is defending it's decision to renegotiate spending on anchor projects, in spite of being warned it's "repeating the mistakes of the past".

Grim projections show the large cost of an extreme flood event and future sea level increases on buildings and homes.

Members of the working party tasked with looking into different options for the Cathedral are being paid $800 a day.

Former Canterbury Earthquake Recovery chief executive Roger Sutton has a new role as an Anglican church trustee.

When Rosalie Sterritt QSM joined the police in 1948, woman officers were expected to deal only with female offenders.

Guns have become an item of choice for burglars who are targeting homes where they know there are firearms, then selling them in the black market.

A near miss from being paralysed has encouraged a Papanui High School student to make most of her opportunities and try her hand in the modelling scene.

Envirowaste must pay a truck driver $32,300 after he was fired for a drug test that showed up positive for cannabis.

WATCH: The Christchurch Brick Show attracted thousands of spectators which featured glow in the dark Lego to animatronic lego puppets.

At least four research applications related to suicide and the Christchurch earthquakes were declined funding over the past five years.

Crusaders fans may be hurting tonight but one Christchurch man will be counting his lucky stars after winning $25,000 cash at the game.

Christchurch Police are looking for four drift trikes stolen in a recent burglary in Christchurch.

The Bachelor NZ will take up the dating game again since dumping winner Fleur Verhoeven, after being bought at a charity auction.

A man arrested on Friday night and then given bail on Saturday morning went on an alleged crime spree in Christchurch, Oamaru and Dunedin.

Two publicly-owned companies spearheading the city's rebuild have average salary rates in excess of $120,000.

Since the earthquakes, the cost of building new homes in Canterbury has risen by nearly 40 per cent.

Christchurch has always been dubbed the most English city outside of England, but the earthquakes claimed many buildings promoting that brand.

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.

Veteran activist John Minto has put up his hand to run against Lianne Dalziel for the Christchurch mayoralty.

A Christchurch company designing cat's eyes to communicate big data is one of ten start-ups selected for Vodafone's acceleration lab.

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

Canterbury motorists and truckies need to plan for another week of night-time Lyttelton Tunnel delays.

A Christchurch man who tried to "blackmail" a woman into meeting him by posting a naked photo of her on Instagram has been warned by a judge that he could go to jail.

Name suppression has today lapsed for a Mexican man charged over the biggest cocaine bust in New Zealand history.

Two car crashes on an icy South Island highway have left seven people injured this morning.

The Christchurch kebab shop owner who ignored an armed robber says he told himself: "try to be cool as much as you can".

Floods and ice around New Zealand are hitting school holiday travel plans.