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Logging truck driver dies in crash

Quake burial error 'last thing we needed'

Mayor Bob Parker has stepped in to save Christchurch's council from a blunder over the payment of earthquake victims' burials.

Toxic algae discovered in Canterbury lake

Labour questions Govt commitment to Christchurch rebuild plan

Christchurch 'one of NZ's most exciting cities' - Lonely Planet

Travel experts at Lonely Planet are encouraging tourists to spend some time in Christchurch.

Campfire blamed for Fiordland bushfire

Woman found dead in Christchurch named

Christchurch rattled by more aftershocks

Quake expert quizzed on 'toxic secrets'

John Roughan: How long can this go on?

John Roughan asks: What else might the authorities not want a traumatised population to know?

Rain forecast for much of New Zealand

Year in review: A day that changed Christchurch forever

February 22: 182 people dead, a cityscape devastated. Kurt Bayer looks back on the months that followed.

Big Christchurch quakes freak Jackie Chan out

Holiday road deaths stacking up

Another fatal crash has taken the road toll to 11 at the halfway point of a horror holiday season. Road fatalities are counting at more than twice the rate of last year but are still well short of the record...

Nelson residents ready for another deluge

Bowls: Past winners head straight for the top

Elderly possum trapper's body found after more than five months

The widow of a trapper whose body was found more than five months after he went missing says he died doing what he loved.

Postal deliveries to quake-hit Christchurch to resume