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Following a tender process, detailed design work will begin.
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Since a fire last year, residents across the city have been subject to a horrendous smell.
New lower speed limits between Christchurch and Akaroa
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Free healthy food delivered to heart attack patients in new study
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'Comedy of errors': Christchurch residents desperate to raise the flag again
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Hamish Clark: Christchurch Stadium - We can't stop now, build it no matter what the cost
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Former Christchurch mayor Sir Bob Parker's apartment sold
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Zac Guildford charged with breaching intensive supervision before latest sentencing
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John MacDonald: Memo to council - 'Please don't press pause on stadium'
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Demio bandits: Children as young as 10 behind spate of car thefts
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'Phenomenal' physios step in after rugby player fractures neck
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Opinion: Restoring respect is key to reducing crime
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Christchurch cyclists quick to sign-up for anti-theft register
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Delays on major Canterbury alpine pass for next 10 weeks
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Two people injured after serious crash on rural Canterbury road
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Vehicle left upside down on busy roundabout after crash
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$562 million to fight gangs, guns and ram raiders: Law and order package announced
Announcement comes amid a climb in youth crime over the past month.
Further court action possible for 'shocking' landlords ordered to pay 'vulnerable' tenants $38,000
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Opinion: Simon Henry has shown himself to be a complete turkey over Nadia Lim comments
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Named: Man charged with murder of carer was her boarder
The killing shocked the quiet Christchurch street on which she lived.
One person injured in early morning house fire
Emergency services were called to the blaze in Invercargill just before 2.30am.
Christchurch Hospital staff punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed
Patients taking their frustration out on the very people they have asked for help.
Lighting show, fireworks spectacular among winter events in Christchurch
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Opinion: Christchurch council flying the flag for the overthinkers and the paranoid
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'Like an earthquake': Car crashes into sleeping man's bedroom
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Hamish Clark: No one should have to pay full rates to endure Christchurch's foul-smelling stench
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Woman incited man's suicide with 'callous' texts
Judge says Charlotte Cole must have known her partner's vulnerability and acted on it.
Joseph Day was groomsman for his school mate last month
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