Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.

A coroner has ruled Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley died from a massive blow to her head on the day she went missing.

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The Ashburton Council has reneged on its deal to sell commercial land to a Chinese company planning to bottle water for export.

The June 30 deadline for Silver Fern Farms and Chinese food group Shanghai Maling Aquarius will be missed.

The fallout from Silver Fern Farms' decision to axe the bobby calf kill at the co-operative's Fairton plant impacts Mid Canterbury region.

A large gang fight in Ashburton involving weapons has resulted in police making nine arrests.

If Ashburton Council doesn't halt sale of land with aquifer, residents will take ECan to the High Court for a judicial review.

Pilot who was forced to make emergency landing accidentally starved chopper of fuel and had not flown aircraft for five years.

CCTV footage of masked gunman Russell John Tully from inside the Ashburton Work and Income bloodbath can be shown for the first time.

Her mother, aunt and grandmother died of breast cancer. Samantha Pooke is opting for surgery to ensure she survives.

Russell John Tully denies murdering Work and Income front-counter workers Peggy Turuhira Noble and Susan Leigh Cleveland on September 1 last year.

A trial for the man accused of last year's Work and Income shootings in Ashburton, which was due to begin on Monday, has been delayed until next year.

Friends, colleagues and community members gathered this morning to mark one year since two women were killed during a shooting in Ashburton.

Four men were arrested after a bar-side brawl in Ashburton during the early hours of this morning.

A motorist who died in a fatal crash near Ashburton on Friday night has today been named by police.

Ashburton mother Cindy George and her three children were farewelled at an emotional service this morning.

A poisons expert says carbon monoxide could be an "insidious" killer, leaving its victims little or no time to act.

The grief and shock of devastated family and friends as they crossed the red and white police emergency tape on Thomson St was shared throughout the small township today.

The father of three children found dead inside an Ashburton home with their mother cannot stop crying because he misses his "beautiful kids" so much.

The woman and children found dead in an Ashburton house yesterday have now been identified by police.

When Sid Bentley died he may have been broken in spirit, heart and body, but he died surrounded by friends.

The Ministry of Social Development has pleaded not guilty this morning to charges over the deadly Ashburton Work and Income shootings.

The man accused of killing two women at Ashburton’s Work and Income office last year appeared via video link at the Christchurch District Court this morning.

Two men were arrested after gang-related disorder in Ashburton yesterday.

WorkSafe has filed a charge against the Ministry of Social Development following the Ashburton Work and Income shootings last September.

A review of security at the Ministry of Social Development, prompted by last year's deadly shooting at the Ashburton Work and Income office, has found tighter security would not have prevented the incident.

A shed storing vintage steam engines in Ashburton was seriously damaged in a suspicious fire early today.