Community

By SHELLEY TOPP Waimakariri people are being asked to contribute ideas for the new community space planned for Rangiora's Good Street walkway. "We really want the...

Spoils of victory .. Golfing great Sir Bob Charles, from Oxford, with Rangiora High School student Kazuma Kobori after the 17-year-old's win in the...

By Shelley Topp The Rangiora High School Kapa Haka group will open the inaugural Rangiora Festival of Colour in Victoria Park on Saturday, March 24. Festival...

  Red-carpet welcome . . . The 2017 Rangiora Festival Gala night promotion held at the Fools of Desire Cafe in Rangiora's Conway Lane on...

By DAVID HILL Ward Shearman has had an interesting start to his role as the Hurunui District Council's youth development officer. The former soldier was barely...

By David Hill Rain and mud hardly seemed out of place at the launch of the Passchendaele Memorial Cycle/Walkway at Kaiapoi on Monday. Heavy rain greeted...

David and Marilyn Ayers were among the recipients at last week's Waimakariri District Council community service awards. Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon introduced the "Mayor's Award",...

By SHELLEY TOPP Rangiora celebrated winter in style last week with a festival delivering a host of exciting activities to the town. The four-day event began...

By NEIL CLARKSON Retailing has run through the veins of the Blackwell family for six generations. That story has now been chronicled in a book...

  By RACHAEL MACDONALD North Canterbury police are hoping an arrest in Selwyn last week might help resolve the series of break-ins that have plagued the...