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Toddler shot in head with air rifle
Police issue warning on firearm storage after boy injured when his father was retrieving an air rifle from a bedroom wardrobe.
Teen lying on road fatally run over
A teenager is dead after he lay down on an unlit South Canterbury rural road early today and was hit by a car.
Police door knock delivers tragic news
The wife of a Temuka cyclist who died in an Easter road accident was waiting for her husband to come home for dinner when instead a police officer knocked at the door.
Easter road toll: Crash kills cyclist
A cyclist's death in a "gut-wrenching'' crash in south Canterbury last night has dashed hopes for a fatality-free Easter.
Man arrested for alleged assault in South Canterbury
A man has been arrested for an alleged assault which left another man with serious head injuries in the South Canterbury town of Temuka.
Murderer released for second time
A former Timaru woman serving a life sentence for murder has been released from prison for the second time.
One dead in fire
Police and Fire Safety officers are investigating after a body was found in a burnt-out campervan in the South Island this morning.
Reward offered over sheep massacre
An animal rights group is offering a $10,000 reward after a sheep massacre near Timaru which it is says is one of the country's worst animal abuse cases.
Hunted Billy finally gets a lawyer
Nearly 11 weeks after his arrest in Canterbury, fugitive William Alexander Stewart has got himself a lawyer to begin work on almost 70 charges he faces.