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Stolen pounamu is the second most commonly traded commodity for drugs after cash, a West Coast hapū says.

Two children caught in an international tug-of-love have been told they can stay in New Zealand with their father and don’t have to return to their mother in Spain.

A structural engineering expert says the quake in Vanuatu was similar in intensity to the 2011 Christchurch quake that collapsed the CTV building.

The award-winning former Canterbury University abstract artist Mark Braunias has died aged 69.

A live python found in an industrial estate was likely a "lone hitch-hiker", Biosecurity New Zealand says.

A Lake Alice survivor says she's going to take the $150,000 redress payment to buy a house bus and travel the South Island with her pets.

Police are interviewing friends and family and examining the online presence of a 15-year-old to determine what drove her to open fire at her private Christian school in the US.

A man who grew up to become a patched member of the Black Power gang might have had a chance at a clean life outside of Christchurch Men’s Prison had he remained with his nan.

Canterbury mum of three Elise Cassidy has gone through cancer, chemo, major surgery and a pregnancy - all in the space of 12 months - on her journey to the Kathmandu Coast to Coast start line in February.