The flu has hit elderly Cantabrians hard in the last month, with the highest hospitalisation rates from the virus since 2012.

Environment Canterbury is publishing credit card expenditure on their website in a bid to increase its "openness and transparency."

Canterbury District Health Board members say an archaic piece of policy that gags them from speaking to media should be scrapped or reviewed.

Maddie Collins dreams of going to sleepovers with her friends, riding her pony and swimming without feeling sick.

A fundraising drive has been launched to help a Christchurch family fight a legal move to have their dead son exhumed.

A road is closed in Christchurch after a pedestrian was struck by a car early this morning.

Police have issued a warrant for man who sexually groomed a young teenage girl in 2007.

New Zealanders will light up the darkness on 17 mountaintops next month as a message of hope for families struggling to cope with suicides by loved ones.

Men use sledgehammer to smash into bakery and rob till.

Police have found four young people involved in an arson in Christchurch.

Police want to hear from anyone who recognises the people in recently released photos of armed robberies in Christchurch today.

A former principal of a Canterbury school facing child sex charges from the 1990s remains in custody.

After a week of chilly nights and soggy commutes to work, some Aucklanders made the most of a chance to be warm again.

Professional cyclist Keagan Girdlestone came close to death in a crash in Italy. He has made enough progress to return to Christchurch to continue rehabilitation.

She thought she was flying home after a day's work. His plans were far more romantic.

A National MP's bill on lost and found luggage will go before Parliament at a cost of $43,000 an hour to pass into law.

A coroner has found no evidence to support claims that a husband ran over and killed his Christchurch schoolteacher wife deliberately or recklessly.

A young girl raped by a West Coast farm worker who fled to Australia days before his trial fears he will come looking for her once he's served his 10-year jail term.

The three men who allegedly attacked two brothers in Christchurch early Sunday morning have been found.

Police still investigating the 'tragic incident' that occurred near Rangiora on Friday.

Trio sought over assault that left pair in hospital with serious injuries.

A man has been critically injured in a crash between a car and a truck in Christchurch this afternoon.

Watch: Once a month, photographer Olivia Spencer-Bower will be recording as the workers slowly breathe life back into the Town Hall.

An event in Christchurch has kick-started the celebration of nation-wide access radio celebration campaign, The Big Listen.

Memories flooded back for Alan Frewer as he soared into the skies over North Canterbury in a Spitfire.

A rebuild firm that is trying to repair and restore the historic Peterborough Apartments has taken its insurance company to court.

City councillor David East has resigned from a working party negotiating with opponents to a controversial alcohol policy.

Commercial leasing agencies are seeing more incentives creeping into the market to bring tenants back into the central city.

Canterbury drivers are the top offenders in the country when it comes to using their mobile phones and not wearing their seat belts.

A second road tunnel between Christchurch and Lyttelton will be needed in about 20 years due to growth in freight transport, the port boss says.