Community

Gone ... Oaks alongside Rangiora-Woodend Road were felled because of the risk they posed to cyclists.PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP By SHELLEY TOPP Oak trees believed to be...

  By ROBYN BRISTOW Hurunui Mayor Winton Dalley is critical of legislation and regulations which saw local communities and those with comprehensive local knowledge "steam rolled"...

End of an era ... Shoppers gather around the closed doors at the Rangiora Paper Plus and Toyworld store to read a notice saying...

Concern over fate . . . There are fears that Waikari Hospital might not have a part in the Canterbury District Health Board's longer-term...

Departing mayors .. Hurunui District Mayor Winton Dalley, left, with his wife, Jean, and Kaikoura District Mayor Winston Gray with his wife, Mary. PHOTO:...

By Amanda Bowes It may be buckled, bent and shifted off its piles from a ruptured fault running under it, but the historic Highfield woolshed...

By ROBYN BRISTOW The Ministry of Health is quitting the rest of the former Queen Mary Hospital site at Hanmer Springs. It has decided to dispose...

By AMANDA BOWES Hawarden Tavern has been put up for sale by the Hawarden Licensing Trust (HLT) after running out of options to keep it...

  By AMANDA BOWES Baking is in the blood, but after 14 years of supplying the Amberley Farmers' Market with fresh bread, the Frickers, of Waikari,...

  By ROBYN BRISTOW Waipara Hills and summer concerts are now synonymous. And this part of the business owes much to Jenny Anderson who grasped the opportunity...