Christchurch, New Zealand News

Thursday, 17 July 2008, 11:51 am Press Release: New Zealand Police Stabbing In Jollie Street A forty year old man appeared in the Christchurch District Court this morning on an assault charge that relates to an ...

Sensing Murder : Sleuths or scammers? Paranormal evidence or entertainment conspiracy? The Press Saturday, 19 July 2008 Press Graphics MIND BENDING: Sensing Murder might be the most important TV show of our ...

The Royal New Zealand SPCA is outraged at the suspected poisoning with 1080 of a dog belonging to a Greymouth pest control contractor.

Police are pushing for schools to implement an emergency response strategy in the event of a shooting similar to those that have happened overseas.

READ ME: I'M NEW! With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long, happy hours in the library, hunched over his laptop.

A group of investors who received information from financial advisory firm Vestar are to take legal action against the firm to claim millions invested in troubled finance companies.

The Eastgate Shopping Centre has been mauled in a review of shopping centres. The authors say the Christchurch mall is trying to appeal to a catchment not up to the level of income required, and its future ...

Drug users in Christchurch have a take "whatever they can get" mentality, according to a report out today.

Three Christchurch men have been released on bail after two weeks in custody while the police investigate allegations of a shop dealing in stolen computers.

Apple fans across Asia queued for hours to get their hands on the new iPhone Friday, looking to be the first to own a gadget the company hopes will be as big a worldwide smash as the iPod.

An artist's impression of the planned Waiheke resort. 6:00PM Friday July 11, 2008 It used to be noted for its alternative lifestyle - a place for people who wanted to escape the Auckland rat race and swap ...

New Zealanders were the first in the world to get the chance to buy the much hyped iPhone 3G today when three stores opened just after midnight.

New Zealand developer Dave Henderson says the receivership of his Five Mile Holdings project in Queenstown is symptomatic of the "mess" the finance industry is in.

The iPhone 3G is out. Well, not here in the States, obviously. As this story hits the Web, we've got 25 hours, give or take, before the latest iPhone goes on sale just a few blocks away from Macworld's San ...

A shining light in the sky off the west coast of New Zealand overnight is believed to have been a meteor.

Police investigating the "suspected homicide" of a 7-year-old boy have arrested a former South Auckland man and charged him with assault.

PARTING SHOT: Injured Springboks captain John Smit has fired a salvo at the All Blacks before heading back to South Africa.

APALLED: KPMG chair Jan Dawson says former Christchurch partners have treated staff appallingly since defecting to rival acounting firm Ernst and Young.

Want to be the first person in the free world to snag yourself an iPhone 3G ? Tough.

The print media's watchdog has sounded a warning about the industry's trend to cut costs by centralising production and sub-editing. The Press Council's latest annual report says reduced local oversight of ...