Two children woken by screams in the night got up and saw a man stabbing their blood-soaked mother in a frenzied attack. It was only `sheer luck` that Manu Hausia`s victim didn`t die, a court heard today, with stabs from a kitchen... Read...

A Timaru man successfully defended a charge of possessing Class C drugs after police could not confirm samples they seized were the same as ones sent to a testing lab. Read...

Timaru`s town clock, a smaller replica of London’s famous Big Ben, has been frozen in time for months. Read...

Wellington are the New Zealand women`s interprovincial golf champions after beating Canterbury in the final in Timaru. Read...

A man has been arrested and charged over what police describe as `serious aggravated burglar offending` in the Timaru area. Police say the first incident happened in Washdyke on November 4. A man entered a property, allegedly... Read...

A new comprehensive report shows air pollution is generally decreasing in most places, but still regularly reaches harmful levels. Read...

A 19-year-old man has been charged following a horror crash near Timaru in August that took the lives of five teenagers. Read...

The sole survivor of a crash that killed five Timaru teenagers has been charged with five counts of manslaughter. He has appeared in court this afternoon but the Herald has learned some of the victim`s families were not aware of... Read...

The driver and sole survivor of a crash which killed five teenagers near Timaru in August has been charged with five counts of manslaughter. Read...

Have you been online shopping? If yes, you`re not the only one with South Canterbury residents` shopping keeping NZ Post staff busy in Timaru. Read...