A Timaru family syndicate, who have been playing the same Lotto numbers for eight years, won $1 million on Saturday and say it couldn’t have come at a better time. Read...

Botulism looks to be the cause at Washdyke and tests will rule out any exotic disease, the Department of Conservation says. Read...

Benjamin Joseph Downes, 32, died in the crash on Wednesday. Shakana Ackroyd, 19, was critically injured and later died in hospital two days later. Read...

The death came two days after the two-car crash near Temuka. Read...

A revoked or suspended driving licence has not stopped a Timaru man getting behind the wheel and committing seven offences across South Canterbury. Read...

The whanau of a teenager who died in a car crash in Albury, about 81km from Timaru, last Thursday are mourning “a great young man”. Read...

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been lifted for Canterbury, after earlier being in place for Timaru, the Mackenie area, as well as Selwyn and Waimakariri. Read...

Red-meat co-op Alliance says it will be an `emotional time` for the 55 remaining meat workers at its Smithfield plant today. Read...

A judge says he must appear for sentencing in the town where he offended, but the 39-year-old has made another attempt to avoid travelling down. Read...

The cost of shutting its Timaru meat works is costing the troubled red meat co-operative more than $50m. Read...