A man allegedly punched a woman in the face several times after wrestling her baby out of its stroller.

A Timaru contractor has been given the task of shepherding two Waitaki film sets to their final resting place - the landfill.

A Timaru factory has been damaged after a heating unit used for plastics moulds caught fire.

Two people have been freed after they were trapped in their vehicles in a crash at Timaru.

Heritage experts are decrying plans to demolish a prominent South Island hotel.

An application has been made to demolish a heritage Timaru building to make way for a $40 million-$42m redevelopment.

Emergency services were called to Temuka River bridge at about 5.13pm today where two vehicles collided.

It wasn't a bargain that this couple had in mind when they went to the Warehouse in Timaru.

For a double Olympic medallist and world champion, Marc Ryan is a humble chap.

A Timaru toddler who fell 150cm through floorboards in the bathroom of his home is now back to normal after his extraordinary escapade yesterday.

A Dunedin man whose hunting companion was killed after a deer stalking expedition went ''tragically wrong'' has been fined $1000 for illegal hunting.

Timaru has been revealed to have the 'worst level of air pollution' in Australasia. How does your town or city compare?

Police say four people and a chilly bin appear to be the culprits in a weird eel-throwing incident in Timaru on Sunday night.

CCTV footage captured four people throwing eels onto the front lawn of a property in Timaru.

A person was trapped for two hours inside a vehicle involved in a head-on crash on the outskirts of Timaru last night.

After diagnosed with the motor learning disability dyspraxia, James has defied the odds to become one of New Zealand's rising sprint sensations.

Armed police were called to help with a search warrant at a South Canterbury property this morning, where a hydroponic cannabis operation was uncovered.

Four suspicious hedge fires overnight are being investigated by Timaru police.

The Armed Offenders Squad carried out an arrest warrant in Timaru this morning.

Great fiestas, beaches and eateries abound, says Elisabeth Easther.

A person is dead and another seriously injured after a crash in south Canterbury this afternoon.

Geoffrey Lang's first sighting of a 33m cement storage tank in front of his house was also the first time he heard his wife swear.

Members of a family injured in a crash which killed a young girl on Friday night remain in hospital.

A man injured in a serious crash between a car and a truck in South Canterbury this afternoon has died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.

A fire burning in a Timaru building which sparked evacuations this morning appears to have burnt itself out.

A woman died from hypothermia after falling from a cliff and landing on rocks, the coroner has found.

Civil Aviation Authority investigators have yet to find an obvious cause of a fatal microlight accident which killed two people in Timaru on Friday.