The convicted murderer of Timaru hitch-hiker Lisa Blakie continues to pledge his innocence and hopes to clear his name, it emerged today.

Investors in the frozen Hubbard Management Funds will get all of their capital back.

Court action will be taken against the person responsible for an oil spill in the Timaru Port.

Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard misled investors in his tangled affairs, says a report written shortly before his death in a car accident in September, 2011.

A court wrangle involving $60 million of assets and one of the funds caught up in the Hubbard financial collapse has been adjourned until May next year.

The big picture of Christchurch, the broken city, is all too familiar. But what of the details of everyday life as its people journey down the long, rough road to recovery?

A weekend on a South Canterbury farm charms Sheriden Rhodes.