Sinéad Gill

Greater Christchurch on track for ‘Events Express’ EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of people may be able to travel to major Christchurch events by train next year, The Press can reveal.

Private train operator Mainland Rail is in the midst of creating an “event express train” service in time for the opening of One New Zealand Stadium at Te Kaha in April 2026.

Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change Some 290 library workers across Christchurch will get a pay rise despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.

CCC has committed to paying library workers more fairly, despite their pay equity claim being scrapped last month. Unclear yet if other city councils which PSA lodged claims against will follow suit.

TOP faces losing its third leader in three elections. Leader Raf Manji talks about his future and the campaign that was, in which he says TOP was harder to sell than he was and failed to attract financial backing.

“It was not an ideal situation that I wanted to be in" - The four Christchurch candidates on the cusp of Parliament if favourable polling proves accurate www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/3...

The Greenlands are facing homelessness, with less than a week to go until they need to leave their Rangiora rental www.thepress.co.nz/a/home-prope...