A 25-year-old appeared in court this morning charged with the murder of Kenneth John Moore, 65, in Christchurch on Friday - the quake-hit city's second murder case already this year.
A 53-year-old truck driver appeared in court this morning charged with the murder and sexual violation of Christchurch barmaid Tracey Lee Morris.
A jogger has found a woman's body slumped in the back seat of an abandoned car near Christchurch International Airport, in a discovery police are treating as suspicious.
A 20-year-old has been accused of burning down earthquake-damaged homes in Christchurch in a bid to steal hot water cylinders.
Weather forecasters are predicting a warm, dry and sunny Christmas for New Zealand after a rain threat was diverted to Australia.
A helicopter dropped in crucial supplies to cut-off Cable Bay this afternoon before airlifting a six-month pregnant Australian visitor.
The Christchurch-based engineer who died in Morocco just days after his English wife - both in mysterious circumstances - had racked up debts of $700,000, it has been revealed.
The court has called for a psychiatric report on a 27-year-old man charged with murdering Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles as his identity and the facts of the case remain suppressed.
A memorial service will be held this week for murdered Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles.
A heated row erupted last night after the grieving mother of missing Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles, who police say has been murdered, asked for online tributes from his friends be removed.
A male driver died in Christchurch this morning after his car crashed into a roadside tree.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 Hercules is preparing to fly life-saving supplies to sinking Russian fishing vessel Sparta stranded in Antarctica this morning.
A homicide inquiry has been launched this morning after a partygoer died inside a Manurewa nightclub in the early hours.
New Zealand health professionals have applauded the move to bring back free milk for school children.
Police are now searching a new cemetery, 400 metres from the graveyard where they found human remains on Tuesday during their hunt for the body of missing Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles.
Police are digging in a Christchurch cemetery in their search for the body of missing teenager Hayden Miles.
A 27-year-old man appeared in court this morning charged with the murder of missing Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles.
Christchurch Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a teenage girl at the Occupy Christchurch site in Hagley Park yesterday afternoon.
The New Zealand engineering community needs to clarify how earthquake-hit buildings are assessed, in the wake of the fatal February 22 earthquake in Christchurch which killed 182 people.
Police hunting missing Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles are forensically combing the rundown property where the 16-year-old was last seen.
