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Opening night excitement… North Canterbury Musicals president Grant Hartley-Brown, centre, with his wife Dale Hartley-Brown and Ashgrove School principal Leon Van't Veen-Gibbon during interval...

By SHELLEY TOPP Woodend guitarist Cameron Walsh has been chosen for an Eagles tribute band touring Australia and New Zealand later this year. The four-month Hotel...

Family life ... Alison and Chisholm Lunn with their children, from left, Emily, aged 11, James, 7, and Katie, also 11. PHOTO: SUPPLIED By ROBYN...

By ROBYN BRISTOW The award-winning Cheviot Rest Home will close on May 26. Funding woes have left owners Sue and Steve Coleman, the owner-operators for more...

By ROBYN BRISTOW Crime prevention will come under the microscope at a public meeting in Rangiora on May 13. Senior Constable Tony Maw, Kaiapoi and Rangiora...

Spirit not dented ... Alan Macdonald visited Rangiora Airfield on Monday to find his missing shoe. It had been wedged under the rudder pedal....

By DAVID HILL Amberley children could be enjoying a revamped swimming pool by the end of the year. The design has been completed, the tender awarded...

By ROBYN BRISTOW A boyhood dream has come true for Ohoka's Si Gibbon. Gibbon is the 2020-2021 New Zealand International Group A Jetsprinting Champion. It was the...

Boys only .. The all-male Year 0-3 junior class at Omihi Primary School, in Waipara, with their teacher Penny Vincent in the school grounds....

By DAVID HILL North Canterbury farmers are being advised to prepare for the worst as dry conditions continue to bite. Support is available, but farmers need...