Stories by Anna Sargent

A community leader wants the city to follow Auckland's lead in bringing in a ban of supermarket and bottle store alcohol sales after 9pm.

Nigel Wilson was on his routine early-morning dog walk when he was the victim of a brutal stabbing attack, a Crown prosecutor says.

"It was like he'd been murdered by the community," former Gloriavale member Clem Ready says.

The brother of a Gloriavale man who died in 2018 says he was not aware of his brother being badly bullied.

A man has told an inquest that he does not believe a young member who died in 2018 took his own life.

A Gloriavale woman who may have been the last to see Standtrue says nothing about him was "out of the ordinary".

A resident of Christchurch's Port Hills wants councillors to keep pushing for rule changes so they can stop pine trees being replanted in the fire-prone area.

Ukrainian soldiers will be warmer in the trenches next northern winter thanks to Christchurch-made merino wool clothing.

The transport agency says a spate of accidents on the Tekapo-Twizel Highway have caught it "on the hop" and it is mulling new solutions.

Two people have been jailed for their part in a multi-million-dollar Colombian cocaine smuggling ring that used farm workers as cover to import the drug into New Zealand.

The Christchurch City Council is considering options, including a bylaw, to address aggressive begging - with fears it is out of control in some areas.

Unions say the rallies are the next step in a long campaign for the government to fully fund a pay equity settlement.

A neighbour says the Timaru community has been through a dark time after Lauren Dickason killed her three young children. Audio

More details about the behaviour of Nobby Clark, who previously caused outrage for using the N-word, have been revealed.

Jacky Sinclair-Phillips bought a coffin before the error was found. Audio

The Resilience to Organised Crime in Communities programme has expanded to the West Coast to the tune of $2.6m over the next two years.

A coroner's report into a fiery crash in Canterbury that killed three Singaporean students last year found driver fatigue was a likely cause.

A Christchurch-based league club NRL bid could bring in about $50m to the city per season, council has been told.

Imam Gamal Fouda described how two people came to the mosque and locked a worshipper in the kitchen while shouting at him.

New Zealand's vital underwater kelp forests are being decimated by flooding debris swept into the ocean after severe storms.

Despite the "best of intentions and considerable effort", the relationship between the board and the council has broken down, outgoing chair says.

Dumped TVs, microwaves and lounge cushions were just some of the items that close to 1000 volunteers collected.

It comes after Greenpeace said drinking water in several towns had nitrates at levels linked to an increased risk of premature and underweight births.

The organisation tested 445 water samples in Canterbury and results indicate multiple town supplies had nitrate levels above the threshold.

Construction has begun on a $104 million solar farm on the Canterbury Plains, with power set to start flowing by the end of this year.