The boy`s family has reported the attack to police while Ashburton College says the behaviour is `completely unacceptable`. Read...

The boy`s family has reported the attack to police while Ashburton College says the behaviour is `completely unacceptable`. Read...

The court, and some nearby properties, were evacuated as a precaution and there are cordons in place. Read...

An Ashburton councillor has hit out `road cone mania` in the town and is calling on the council to follow Auckland`s lead on the issue. Read...

St John confirmed four people had been seriously injured with two others in a moderate condition. Read...

Six people were injured, four seriously, in the crash this afternoon that saw two helicopters and two ambulances sent. Read...

Three others are believed to be injured, with emergency services still at the scene Read...

The buckets in Ashburton’s new library aren’t for playing with, or an art installation. Read...

Liz McMillan is looking at a social media post suggesting councillors should be thrown in a woodchipper. It’s one of several abusive comments Ashburton’s deputy mayor has on her phone. “It’s just not all right. We are just people doing our job.” Read...

People in Ashburton are cranking up their wood burners in the face of the cold winter weather and the town has already breached the high-pollution threshold twice. Read...