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Adams at ease with background role

Amy Adams Amy Adams is happy playing second fiddle to "front man" Gerry Brownlee as he orchestrates Canterbury's earthquake recovery.

Being at super-school 'feels like family'

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Southern Cross Campus school pupils Ask Maria Timote what she gets from her super-school and she says "a sense of belonging".

New home for athletes

It's flash, it's new and fills a big hole

Track cyclist Lauren Ellis uses the fully-equipped gym, just one of the new facilities at the Apollo Projects Centre. It's new, it's flash and it will hopefully stop top Canterbury athletes leaving the region.

Slaying site to be sold, torn down

Aranui's 'house of horrors' Flat where Hayden Miles was brutally murdered looks set to be sold and demolished.

Super-school out of favour

Classroom, students, pupils, learning, high school, secondary school Some Aranui Primary School parents are already planning to pull their children from the new "super-school".

Teachers upset about possible job losses

Aranui teachers face being out of a job before the "super-school" goes ahead, as worried parents take their children elsewhere.

Protest in Phillipstown

Homework club for Pasifika pupils

'Cold enough for snow'

Snow A possible cold snap could bring snow down to sea level in Canterbury early next week.

Heavy rain batters Christchurch

Downpours hit the city early today, causing two power cuts.

Rain to return to Canterbury

Ferry crossings resume

Summer weather seesaw

Christchurch residents enjoyed a hot start to the year, but don't rely on the statistics to tell you that.

Insurance woes go on and on

Tracey McKeefry, with daughter Piper, 12, in the leaky , draughty North Beach home they believe is years away from being repaired or rebuilt. What's it like to be stuck in limbo? Three home owners describe their ongoing insurance nightmares.

'No red-zone deadline secrets'

Claims that deadline extensions for some red-zone landowners have been kept secret have "deeply offended" Gerry Brownlee.

$840,000 boost for Blenheim theatre

'We don't know where we will go'

Raising a spiritual home for Christchurch

A 14.5-tonne framed window will be fitted into Christchurch's transitional cathedral next week.

Christchurch struggles

2 Making ends meet in Christchurch is getting harder and harder as people struggle to pay high rents and meet their obligations on high interest loans.

Disturbing trend: sons beat their mothers

Domestic violence in Christchurch has taken a worrying turn as angry teenage boys turn on their own mothers.

Caryards best use of site

Saleyard storm: residents speak out

Ngai Tahu slams proposal

Ngai Tahu has weighed in on the debate surrounding a controversial proposal to turn the Addington Saleyards into high-end car yards.

Hub plan will support community

Waimakariri community organisations would benefit from being in a purpose built "community hub" on the same site as the Rangiora health hub, says a Waimakariri District councillor.

Cost of new love can sting

An elderly Rangiora man who spent several hundred dollars on a matchmaking phone service says he was pressured to spend thousands more, after only one week and one failed match.

House hunting misery

Meal plan panned

Scaffold theft irks minister

The disappearance at the weekend of thousands of dollars worth of scaffolding has left a Kaiapoi church in the lurch.

Brush with fame not over

EllaK Ten days after her on- screen exit from television show MasterChef New Zealand, Ella Krauts' celebrity status is alive and well at Lincoln University.

Olive Webb to run for mayor

Competition for the top seat in Selwyn district is heating up, with a third candidate stepping up to the plate.

Stop means STOP: Selwyn drivers

Red zone could go wild

Drivers ignoring medics

First response medics warn that someone could die if motorists on the region's rural roads continue to ignore their green flashing lights.

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