Convicted killer sentenced for jail rampage

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.

Chris Buick's attack on his heavily-pregnant former partner only stopped when she lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.

Two children have narrowly avoided injury after almost being struck by a train this evening.

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.

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.

A man was stabbed to death overnight.

The Ministry of Social Development may have to pay millions to make Work and Income offices safer for staff.

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.

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.

CCTV footage of masked gunman Russell John Tully from inside the Ashburton Work and Income bloodbath can be shown for the first time.

Her mother, aunt and grandmother died of breast cancer. Samantha Pooke is opting for surgery to ensure she survives.

Russell John Tully denies murdering Work and Income front-counter workers Peggy Turuhira Noble and Susan Leigh Cleveland on September 1 last year.

A trial for the man accused of last year's Work and Income shootings in Ashburton, which was due to begin on Monday, has been delayed until next year.