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Kia ora: Temuka
This town has big money, great pubs and cottage industries, discovers Elisabeth Easther.
Toddler shot in head with air rifle
Police issue warning on firearm storage after boy injured when his father was retrieving an air rifle from a bedroom wardrobe.
Teen lying on road fatally run over
A teenager is dead after he lay down on an unlit South Canterbury rural road early today and was hit by a car.
Police door knock delivers tragic news
The wife of a Temuka cyclist who died in an Easter road accident was waiting for her husband to come home for dinner when instead a police officer knocked at the door.
Easter road toll: Crash kills cyclist
A cyclist's death in a "gut-wrenching'' crash in south Canterbury last night has dashed hopes for a fatality-free Easter.
Man arrested for alleged assault in South Canterbury
A man has been arrested for an alleged assault which left another man with serious head injuries in the South Canterbury town of Temuka.
Murderer released for second time
A former Timaru woman serving a life sentence for murder has been released from prison for the second time.
One dead in fire
Police and Fire Safety officers are investigating after a body was found in a burnt-out campervan in the South Island this morning.
Reward offered over sheep massacre
An animal rights group is offering a $10,000 reward after a sheep massacre near Timaru which it is says is one of the country's worst animal abuse cases.
Hunted Billy finally gets a lawyer
Nearly 11 weeks after his arrest in Canterbury, fugitive William Alexander Stewart has got himself a lawyer to begin work on almost 70 charges he faces.