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About 30 new jobs will be created once the new goat milk infant formula canning facility in Ashburton is up and running in mid November, (more)

Winston Peters has asked the question of New Zealand farmers. The New Zealand First leader was in Ashburton yesterday to address a meeting (more)

Environment Minister Nick Smith has welcomed the focus on fresh water this election campaign. Smith told an audience of about 40 people (more)

Facts from the classroom are about to come alive for a group  of Ashburton College classics students who left for Europe on (more)

Longbeach School became an underwater wonderland yesterday, when students donned sea-inspired dress-ups to give their community pool a (more)

Young performers at Methven Primary School are ready to take audiences for a wild adventure on board Ms. Frizzle’s Magic School (more)

When it comes to how a local authority runs its business, they’re more likely to get brickbats than bouquets from ratepayers. But (more)

Welcome to National Democracy Day, otherwise known as Election Day. The beauty about an election is it gives everyone a chance to believe (more)

Warning. This is a political editorial, but not one about politics. If that makes sense? Today is about politics of course, but not the (more)

For Foodies with Kerri Lysaght Our mornings are now greeted with bird song and fruit blossom and the night rings with the sounds of (more)

Mad Mama with Desme Daniels So, I just got the email from the principal that my seven-year-old boy was in a fight at school. Luckily (more)

Music evokes emotions in a variety of different ways. Music evokes emotions in a variety of different ways. One piece of music can (more)

Seven Ashburton District councillors and mayor Donna Favel have thumbed their noses at the keepers of Ashburton’s fire history. Last (more)

The 1960s was a decade of change and young people were rewriting the rules. Dance was a prime example. No longer was dance formal, (more)

The many musical programmes in the Ashburton Museum’s archive would originally have been kept as a reminder of a concert attended, or perhaps (more)

Facts from the classroom are about to come alive for a group  of Ashburton College classics students who left for Europe on (more)

When it comes to how a local authority runs its business, they’re more likely to get brickbats than bouquets from ratepayers. But (more)

The Ashburton District Council has lifted a precautionary boil water notice from the Mt Somers water supply. The quality of the village’s (more)

  If you’re told your illness is terminal, life for you and your family changes overnight. Helping people find a way through the (more)

Brian and Anne (not their real names) are your average Ashburton couple. They have a warm and loving relationship and they’re enjoying their (more)

As July’s big rainfall and subsequent flooding around the Ashburton District become just a memory, Ashburton historian Gilbert Donaldson (more)