
Baby boy dies in crash near Timaru
Police will be talking today to the parents of a four-week-old baby who died in a car crash near Timaru last night.
Police will be talking today to the parents of a four-week-old baby who died in a car crash near Timaru last night.
Police have named a Timaru man who was crushed to death by his car while trying to remove the oil filter.
Fire crews are continuing to dampen down a large fire at the Timaru Port. The blaze started around 4pm yesterday at the Sanford Limited's cold store.
A survivor of a crash in the Lindis Pass that claimed two lives, caused by an inexperienced driver, wants to see rental car companies imposing tougher controls on who it hires vehicles to.
Court action will be taken against the person responsible for an oil spill in the Timaru Port.
Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard misled investors in his tangled affairs, says a report written shortly before his death in a car accident in September, 2011.
Police are treating the case of a nine-year-old boy found bloodied and distressed on a rural Canterbury bridge as a suspected abduction.
A court wrangle involving $60 million of assets and one of the funds caught up in the Hubbard financial collapse has been adjourned until May next year.