Canterbury has played host to a slew of Hollywood icons including Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Nicole Kidman and more — all of whom have lapped up the area’s rugged splendour at some of the ...

A recent international visitor to New Zealand's second largest city asked Coralie Winn why there were so many diggers in its centre tearing down buildings. It seemed they had little notion that less ...

Five years on from the massacre, the government is preparing to roll back gun reforms and progress to make New Zealand safer is faltering The day before the fifth anniversary of a terrorist attack at ...

A New Zealand theologian said the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 were primarily directed at Muslims, who were viewed and defined as the "invading other." Douglas Pratt, a professor of ...

It was a chilly Wednesday night, but the small city’s CBD was humming with foot traffic. The cheery laughter and conversation poured from the doors, windows and balconies of establishments at its ...

Sunday marks the anniversary of the first major Christchurch earthquake. But the devastated city continues to struggle with daily aftershocks and long-term uncertainty. When it struck with terrifying ...

If the ground shakes and no one is there to feel it, did an earthquake really happen? Sure did. Just look at the Quake Map records for Christchurch, much of which feels like an abandoned ...