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A Kaikoura man has been fined for pretending to be a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) fishery officer and extorting money from tourists who...

By DAVID HILL Planning is complete and work is about to start on Woodend's war memorial. Woodend Lions president Ian Lennie says $54,000 has been raised. Now,...

By ROBYN BRISTOW Around 450,000 tyres are still piled high on a Racecourse Road property on the outskirts of Amberley, despite a court order to...

By SHELLEY TOPP At 84, Bev Brain is casting off from her long-standing wool business in Rangiora's High Street. Bev has sold her business and is...

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

By ROBYN BRISTOW The Waimakariri district's economy and population continue to grow. The latest Infometrics Quarterly Economic Monitor shows the local economy grew 3.1 percent in...

  By ROBYN BRISTOW A Formula-1 style supercar for the super rich - FZed - is about to be released in North Canterbury. Its release by Rodin...

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 RACHEL MACDONALD North Cantabrians toying with the idea of buying an electric car, but concerned about running out of charge on the motorway or...

Mini motoring ... Julie Walker, of Woodend Beach, with her 2002 BMW-made Mini Cooper, the latest of five Minis she has owned. Photo: Shelley...