Christchurch city councillors and community board members have claimed more than $30,000 in mileage during the last three years.

Come November 5, more than 9000 people will head to the domain to watch, take part and enjoy the The Hororata Highland Games - the largest in NZ.

"Paddy's Army", a group of about 25 St Patrick's School pupils in Bryndwr who have collected almost 150 pairs of pyjamas to give to foster children.

Plans to build a new health hub and maternity unit in the central city, which were scrapped because of asbestos contamination, may still go ahead.

A wooden fence post fell off the back of a truck and went through the windscreen of a vehicle the driver was passing.

Six years after the September 2010 earthquake, the Hororata community is still in the dark about when its badly damaged heritage church will be restored.

About 100 farmers in Otago and Southland were forced to dump milk over the weekend in the aftermath of the milk silo collapse at Fonterra's Edendale site.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

A vehicle driven the wrong way on a Christchurch street was the reason behind a reported police chase early this morning.

Nine ducklings survived a deadly dash across a motorway yesterday afternoon. Their mother wasn't so lucky.

The young woman killed in a fatal crash in Southland on Thursday has been named as 18-year-old Hayley Taylor.

A man is appearing in Timaru District Court on Monday charged over a double stabbing that left one critically injured.

Police are looking to speak to a woman driver involved in a bike vs vehicle crash in Invercargill on Friday evening.

The grandmother of a disabled Christchurch boy who has a hard time making friends has desperately appealed for other children to attend his fifth birthday party.

Andrew Grubb was a "top bloke" who excelled at every sport he tried and always had a smile on his face, friends and workmates said.

Two women have been arrested after the armed offenders squad blocked off part of Maitland St in Dunedin this afternoon.

A man was taken to hospital after being beaten up with a baseball bat outside a South Island cemetery.

Jack Lopas has just returned from the World Rowing Junior Championships with a gold medal hanging around his neck, and he is straight into NCEA study.

Her little dog was hit by a car, hours later Coral Luscombe found out a stranger had anonymously paid $1000 toward her dog's vet bill.

A judge has labelled an Arrowtown road rage incident as an "appalling piece of behaviour" while a couple was assaulted while their kids were in the car.

Queenstown's top cop is failing to front after officers were caught cherry-picking what they're telling the media.

A man who claims his car was stolen, crashed it himself while drink driving before fleeing the scene, police allege.

It'll cost you up to $10,000 a night, but you will get million dollar views. A new hotel complex has been completed in Queenstown

The cash-strapped Canterbury District Health Board's money problems have got worse.

Elisabeth Easther finds a small South Island town that rocks and regularly dances.

One person has died after a crash near the Southland town of Mataura this evening.

On an insider tour of Dunedin's hidden treasures, Eleanor Ainge Roy discovers the other Edinburgh deserves a second glance.

A Sydney man proposed to his girlfriend moments after their helicopter crashed near Queenstown this week.

Police have found a body within the scene of the commercial premises destroyed by fire last night at Franz Josef.