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Jacinda Ardern will stay in her role as special envoy to the Christchurch Call into 2024 after a meeting with Prime Minister Chris Luxon.

Australian authorities fined 77-year-old New Zealand resident June Armstrong $3,300 (U.S. $2,034) for bringing a chicken sandwich into the country. Armstrong bought the sandwich, which was sealed, at the Christchurch airport and put it into her backpack intending to eat it on her flight. But she forgot about it until…

After an interminable comeback from injuries, Michaela Sokolich-Beatson thought she’d never wear the silver fern again - till she led the FAST5 Ferns to a netball world final, Suzanne McFadden writes from Christchurch.

Christchurch City Council makes a belated plea for help to pay for its $683m stadium, Te Kaha

The red wave of 2020 has receded, is a green one now on the way? David Williams investigates how the Greens have eaten Labour's lunch in the Christchurch.

The coronial inquest into the deaths of 51 Muslim worshipers is still yet to hear evidence from pathologists, doctors and ambulance officers

Coroner says inquiry offers chance to consider if response to such incidents could be improved

Proceedings are expected to last six weeks and will seek to ‘shine a light’ on what happened in March 2019.

Transparency questions raised over consultants’ work on Lyttelton Port Company