Constable's canal rescue earns award
As Constable Gary Prescott battled to save an elderly woman from drowning in her car in a Christchurch drainage canal, she told him that she would be fine to "drive home from here". "It took some coaxing to even get her hands to unclench from the steering wheel. I don't think she really realised where she was and what had...
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Cop accused of stealing in quake city
Earthquake-battered Christchurch residents are upset that a police officer is suspected of stealing from a quake-affected business.
Miley now smiling
Last week Miley the black labrador was a worried girl, rescued from a house blaze in Hornby and resuscitated by firefighters.
Rural pubs focus of police crackdown
Police are targeting country pubs to combat drink-driving, with a Leithfield woman caught on Sunday heading home from the local hotel on a farm bike.
Oz for MasterChef contestant
Masterchef contestant Matt Gilray is leaving Christchurch on Friday to further his food career across the Tasman.
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Crusaders kitted up for fundraiser
A piece of early south Christchurch sports history was recalled when the Crusaders took the field against the Reds in their one-off red and black hooped jerseys...
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- Kiteboarding: A whole new class
- Athletics: World best throw lifts expectations
- Respect Rebels, warns Franks
Bob Parker - The time is right
The Mayor says the time is right to attract new investment and business opportunities to Christchurch and Canterbury
- Roger Sutton - Central Development Unit
- Your views - Hagley Park
- Your views - Give way rules
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Kiwi ingenuity revives fungi farm
What goes around comes around. Just ask Wanganui mushroom farmer Leighton Minnell.
- Delivering wool harvest integrity
- Industry shakeup - DIRA regulations
- Downward trends, but no disaster
- Society aims to take show national
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DVD review: The Son of No One
When Jonathan White (Channing Tatum) escaped from the troubled Projects housing development in New York, he thought he could put its horrors behind him.
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Teen admits killing retired teacher
Teenager Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of a retired Opotiki schoolteacher, four days before her retrial was set to begin.In the High...
- MFAT cuts: Final job losses drop to 79
- Driver guilty over runaway van death
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- Body found in Wanganui street
Recipes that remind you of mum
Recipes that remind you of mum
- Cookbook review: Pipi: the cookbook
- Q&A with Glenys Woollard
- Q&A with Glenys Woollard
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Former warlord recruiting children
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited...
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- Kennedy wife found dead in New York
- Spain snubs Queen over Gibraltar dispute
- Signs of recovery in Japan as economy grows 4.1pc
Home sales recover in January as listings lag
Dunedin house prices gained 11 percent to an average $245,000, while the number sold gained 35 percent to 143 in January.
- NZ houses 'highly unaffordable'
- Insurance shocks hit homeowners
- Chiefs are cautiously optimistic
- Houses cheaper - but still at New York levels