The consent allows its new owner to extract 4.3 million litres of water a day until 2032.

The murdered girl's mother is doubtful the case will be solved after all these years.

Woman with dementia took the car and drove to Ashburton.

A teacher has left Auckland after "four or five years" trying to save for a house deposit.

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A woman has been injured after being hit by a truck on a Mid Canterbury farm today.

The man killed on State Highway 77 yesterday has been named.

A man has died after a crash in Mid Canterbury this morning.

A 400sq m bush blaze is burning beside a rural road near Ashburton.

A convicted killer has today admitted going on a prison rampage that caused $6000 worth of damage in December.

The death is not believed to be suspicious, a police spokeswoman said.

The Ministry of Social Development is awaiting sentencing on breach of health and safety legislation after the 2014 Ashburton Work and Income office killings.

Only five days into November, 10 people have already died on our roads, and police fear another 60 to 70 people could be killed before the end of the year.

A motorcyclist who went under a milk tanker that caught fire in a crash near Ashburton this afternoon has died.

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The Court of Appeal has confirmed a hearing date next year for Work and Income double-killer Russell John Tully.

A 50-year-old man who died after the quad bike he was riding crashed on a farm near Ashburton has been named.

Grieving family faces a new tragedy.

Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.

A coroner has ruled Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley died from a massive blow to her head on the day she went missing.

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The Ashburton Council has reneged on its deal to sell commercial land to a Chinese company planning to bottle water for export.

The June 30 deadline for Silver Fern Farms and Chinese food group Shanghai Maling Aquarius will be missed.

The fallout from Silver Fern Farms' decision to axe the bobby calf kill at the co-operative's Fairton plant impacts Mid Canterbury region.

A large gang fight in Ashburton involving weapons has resulted in police making nine arrests.

If Ashburton Council doesn't halt sale of land with aquifer, residents will take ECan to the High Court for a judicial review.

A person has died after being struck by a freight train in Mid Canterbury this morning.

The driver of a stolen car was caught by police after crashing into a KFC in Ashburton.

Pilot who was forced to make emergency landing accidentally starved chopper of fuel and had not flown aircraft for five years.