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A police guard outside the Christchurch City Mission on Hereford Street following the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old Jordan Morris in March. Photo: RNZ / Adam Burns A murder charge laid against a man accused of killing another man at Christchurch's City Mission has been dropped on the grounds of self-defence.

Shunlian Huang was murdered by her husband Zeshen Zhou in 2005. "I chopped up my wife," Zeshen Zhou told police when they turned up after neighbours heard screams coming from his house.

A teenage girl was one of two strangers allegedly assaulted by a man in his fifties in central Dunedin yesterday.

David Nyika during an open workout at the Boulevard City Music World, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ahead of this weekend's fight. Photo: Getty Images On the eve of a career-defining fight, David Nyika has revealed his family's death-defying dash out of Uganda and the step he's taken more than 50 years later to reconnect with his African roots.

Police are searching for a middle-aged man who flashed a child on her way to school in North Dunedin.

Sumner surfer Tony Schafer, pictured at the 2019 national surfing championships, is feeling fortunate after being plucked from the water following a heart attack. Photo: Cory Scott/NZ Surfing Magazine Tony Schafer is counting down the days until he can get back out into the surf after nearly drowning while suffering a heart attack.

FC Twenty 11 goalkeeper and captain Harri Rowe said it has been a challenging season so far. PHOTO: JIM WATTS PHOTOGRAPHY ​ A relegation dogfight beckons for FC Twenty 11 and Universities in the Southern League.

Porirua GP Bryan Betty says it is just the start of the winter illness season. Photo: Supplied There's been an increase in cold and flu illnesses, but Covid-19 cases have been around all summer and are expected to spike as winter nears, experts say.

CCHL managed more than $3 billion in assets on behalf of the city council, including Christchurch Airport. Photo: File image After the shock resignation of four Christchurch City Holdings Limited board members on Wednesday, Business Canterbury is calling on Christchurch City Council to review its oversight of the city's strategic assets.

The building of 690 KiwiBuild homes and 593 market homes has been halted as a review, headed by former prime minister Sir Bill English, is carried out. Photo: RNZ Kāinga Ora has stopped plans to build nearly 1,300 homes while it awaits the outcome of a government review and the Budget.

Associate Education Minister David Seymour says there is "no reason to disallow" for-profit charter schools as long as they are meeting students' educational needs. Photo: RNZ By John Gerritsen

3D graphic of high-resolution bathymetry data retrieved from Wānaka lakebed mapping project. Photo: NIWA Lake Wānaka has been mapped in intricate detail by scientists to better understand the risk of earthquakes and tsunamis.

Gillian Vine gets the lowdown on downsizing from an Oamaru gardener. 

The essential garden tool kit for the home garden. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN Having the right tool for the job is essential and this applies to horticulture as much it does for any other trade.

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Te Pati Maori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. PHOTO: ODT FILES A few weeks ago Mariameno Kapa-Kingi used the words "this government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori" in the House.

Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. PHOTO: REUTERS Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the "Middle East Problem" might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out.

The most harmful drug to New Zealand’s youth — alcohol — is widely accessible, heavily marketed, and cheap. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES "Harms can be minimised by taking a policy approach to drugs focused on health and wellbeing, rather than prohibition and criminalisation", write  Dr Rose Crossin and Prof Joe Boden.