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Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the Government’s efforts to explore restrictions on social media use for under-16s, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced. Luxon said the ...
Christchurch singer-songwriter Rebecca Robin is marking the one-year anniversary of her debut EP Stardust with a special live show at Space Academy tonight. The performance, featuring support from ...
There were tears and hugs when St John emergency call handler Anna Evans met the newborn baby she helped deliver over a 111 call in a stranger’s bathroom. Evans, who works at Christchurch’s ...
Have you ever been to a show where you were borderline convinced you were literally watching the person a performer was portraying? That happened in Ali Harper’s Judy’s Encore. I was utterly lost in ...
A crash on the northbound side of the Christchurch Northern Motorway has caused significant traffic disruption on Friday evening. Emergency services were called to the scene around 5.20pm a police ...
Christchurch’s city centre is set for one of its most significant redevelopments since the earthquakes, with Peebles Group unveiling plans for a transformational ...
The Government’s decision to rewrite New Zealand’s pay equity laws has drawn starkly opposing responses from two Christchurch MPs, one describing it as fiscally responsible reform, the other warning ...
Health New Zealand has confirmed two separate technical failures affected hospital systems across parts of the South Island on Wednesday, forcing staff in some areas to revert to manual processes.
Once again, the Christ Church Cathedral is being held up as the city’s unfinished soul, this time in a taxpayer-funded video lamenting the rise of a state-of-the-art stadium, while the Cathedral ...
A former University of Canterbury student bar has been transformed into a community facility and church in Burwood, with its official opening set for this Sunday The building, once home to The Foundry ...
I had seen the marketing posters all around North Canterbury, but it still didn’t hit me that Catch Me If You Can was based on the film with the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, until I attended ...
A protest is scheduled in Rolleston on Friday as part of a nationwide response to the Government’s changes to pay equity laws. The demonstration, organised in reaction to what has been described as ...