Friends and family wept and held up photos of a murdered Christchurch woman as her killer pleaded guilty today.

Police are appalled at the condition of Christchurch's bus fleet after a sting that saw 28 buses pulled off the city's streets.

A Christchurch wildlife park is adopting three endangered gorillas.

South African multiple world record holder Oscar Pistorius will compete in Christchurch next year.

With this review I want to declare two biases. I am a big fan of Laurence Fearnley’s writing and particularly loved Edwin + Matilda.

How are Christchurch businesses coping two months after the big earthquake?

Another aftershock has hit Canterbury this evening.

Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is heading back to our shores soon. By Paula Yeoman.

When the earth moved for lovebirds Kate Lynch and Andrew Gourdie it was not a good thing.

A "little swarm" of four small earthquakes near Taupo yesterday was not unusual or concerning, a seismologist says.

The vision of her mother dying in hospital after being knocked off her bike by a motorist asleep at the wheel is imprinted on Sarah Carr's mind.

A West Coast driver who fell asleep and killed a cyclist faces a much longer self-imposed sentence than the community detention handed down, says her lawyer.