Jonathan Leask

Environment Canterbury is rolling out millions of dollars' worth of flood resilience projects across Mid and Selwyn districts.

Canterbury's flood defences are set for a major boost.

The district's new mayor is promising the next rate rise will be a single digit.

Liz McMillan was grinning from ear to ear as she settled into the Ashburton mayoral office in the town's library and civic centre.

Work to fix the damaged beam on the Tinwald Viaduct is yet to start, 10-weeks after the road was closed.

'I'm not a climate change denier, but I don't think it's all man's fault,' Phill Hooper told a gathered crowd.

Sam Wilshire is proposing that councillors should refund their salaries to match any rate rise over inflation.

Jeff Ryan has been promising to push the government to keep road user charges in the region of origin.

It's been closed in yet another crash and repairs could take months. Some question whether it should just close permanently.

Neil Brown says lizards and birds will choose to move to make way for Ashburton's second bridge.

Selwyn MP Nicola Grigg no longer resides within her own electorate following a boundary reshuffle ahead of next year's general election.

A Selwyn District Council meeting ground to a halt when a public speaker refused to leave the table.

Mother of two Amanda Burrows says it's a is "a complete overreaction".

A local woman is renewing the campaign for State Highway 1 between Rolleston and Ashburton to be increased to four lanes.

It means a popular annual market day in September has to move - but only just down road.

A local resident fears an epidemic of Airbnb owners flouting the rules and over-running residential areas.

A lot has changed in the Ashburton District since 1975, but there has always been one constant - the librarian.

After years of pushing for safe, clean drinking water, residents in Ashburton's north-east may finally get what they have long demanded.

Testing shows a reduction in toxic algae at Lake Hood, but not enough to have the health warning removed just yet.

Locals have expressed anger that Sam Broughton was not in the region during the emergency.

Ashburton's mayor is backing a proposal to make Mid Canterbury residents pay more for events at the new Christchurch stadium, rather than a regional rate.

David Seymour has written to councils asking for help with school truancy but mayor says it's not a 'core duty' of local government.

Selwyn Huts residents have been asked to evacuate as rivers rise and rain lashes already sodden ground.

Shane Epiha says the bullying has reached the point where his family don't feel safe in their own community.

Ashburton's mayor says the future of the area's water services is "the biggest decisions council will make in many, many years".