Retailers band against thieves

It’s strange to be contemplating paying for water as I survey the damage another 60mm of rain has done to an already waterlogged dairy (more)

An initiative aimed at getting women fit for the calving season is likely to step up a gear next year. Run by Canterbury dairy farm (more)

Grants announced in the past few weeks from the Ministry for the Environment’s Freshwater Improvement Fund are set to improve the water (more)

Six young Ashburton brains took on the Canterbury Robocup last week and successfully created robots clever enough to qualify for the (more)

Breakfast clubs for Ashburton schoolchildren are not only tackling hunger and poverty, but having “absolutely amazing” positive (more)

Senior Ashburton College students perused nearby jobs, opportunities and future pathways at a bustling Local Employers Career Expo (more)

So, after a good deal of wriggling and writhing, Meteria Turei followed the noble example set by Andrew Little, fell on her sword and left (more)

Ashburton River Sir, Peter Smith is clearly part of the pre-election Forest and Bird misinformation campaign designed to change the (more)

Water tax We must be careful what we wish for. I am an arable farmer producing grain, seed and vegetables. We are fortunate to live in (more)

Mazda reckons with the new and significantly changed CX-5’s bold looks, its ride and performance, that once you are behind the wheel you (more)

I spend many days scanning images. Most times they are relatively straightforward and easy to describe. Sometimes, however, an odd (more)

Mad Mama with Desme Daniels. It’s birthday season, the time of year when all the Daniels/Dennis family birthdays seem to hit at (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)

I believe that one should take any opportunity that comes your way, so when I was invited to go to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for a (more)

In 1883 it was to be a town of the future but today Diamond Town at Mt Alford is simply a forestry block, the owners of its 161 sections (more)

Pump failures and exceptionally heavy rainfalls have created the perfect storm on several of the Ashburton District Council’s water (more)

When Ashburton’s NZ Post building is sold next month nothing will change for postal and banking users. Three years down the track, (more)

It might have been trading  for seven weeks, but Ashburton’s St John Op Shop is now officially in business. The shop joins a network (more)