Police used vehicle tracking GPS to hunt down a Christchurch trio who allegedly broke into a tourist bus near Palmerston and stole goods valued up to $30,000.
Living a long life is down to the family genes for Canterbury centenarian Donald Keen whose mother Ethel was the oldest living New Zealander when she died in 1982.
A minister of a secretive global sect who was outed as a paedophile and sexual predator after his death visited New Zealand multiple times to attend the religious group's annual gatherings.
Recruitment has been a headache for Kaikōura District Council over recent years, but chief executive Will Doughty has finally found a new building control manager.