Life is never dull on the road with Grant the Cook, writes Jason Burgess.

A man has been arrested who was wanted by police in connection with an alleged attempted abduction of a 13-year-old Timaru girl.

Seven Fonterra workers treated after a toxic fumes scare today have all been discharged from hospital, and five have already returned to work.

Farmers, shopkeepers, police officers and a mayor have volunteered to play "bad guys" in a large-scale realistic war game.

A dead humpback whale spotted off the Timaru coast about two weeks ago has now washed up on the boulder beach between the sea and Lake Wainono, near Waimate.

A five-and-a-half week old baby who died after a car crash in South Canterbury has been named as Amadeus Tutunoa of Timaru.

Police have named a Timaru man who was crushed to death by his car while trying to remove the oil filter.

Fire crews are continuing to dampen down a large fire at the Timaru Port. The blaze started around 4pm yesterday at the Sanford Limited's cold store.

A survivor of a crash in the Lindis Pass that claimed two lives, caused by an inexperienced driver, wants to see rental car companies imposing tougher controls on who it hires vehicles to.

The convicted murderer of Timaru hitch-hiker Lisa Blakie continues to pledge his innocence and hopes to clear his name, it emerged today.

Court action will be taken against the person responsible for an oil spill in the Timaru Port.

Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard misled investors in his tangled affairs, says a report written shortly before his death in a car accident in September, 2011.

Police are treating the case of a nine-year-old boy found bloodied and distressed on a rural Canterbury bridge as a suspected abduction.

A court wrangle involving $60 million of assets and one of the funds caught up in the Hubbard financial collapse has been adjourned until May next year.