These days there are diggers and piles of twisted metal where Queen Elizabeth II Park used to stand. Weeds sprout from dirt mounds behind cold wire fences. It is a sorry site. Ask anyone in New Brighton or even across wider Christchurch and memories of the place are easy to… Read More »New Brighton struggles to recapture glory days
What do you do when you want to compliment a business on its great service? If you’re University of Canterbury student Hannah Duder, you create an award-winning smartphone app. Duder, a fourth-year Law and Accounting student, won first prize in the University of Canterbury’s annual Entré Apps Challenge, a competition… Read More »Student's phone app food for thought
They provide jet thrills, adventure tours and gondola rides, and they want cruise ship customers back in Lyttelton. High Country Explorer Tours director Rod Bennett leads a group of 38 unhappy tourism operators and activity providers who are calling on the Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) to speed up repairs… Read More »Unhappy tourism operators call on port
Kiwis – the humankind – are getting the chance to vote on what native bird will take out Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Year contest. The competition, in its sixth year, is run by the conservation group to raise the profile of native birds and the struggles they face.… Read More »Kiwis all a flutter about bird competition
Christchurch’s Tom Marsh is one giant leap closer to realising his dream of becoming an astronaut. Marsh, a year 13 student at Burnside High School, was selected for an International Space Camp at Nasa in Huntsville, Alabama. After just finishing the two-week programme, Marsh is as passionate as ever about… Read More »Chch student aims for the stars
A Christchurch earthquake engineer has been awarded an $800,000 grant to continue his research into the Canterbury earthquakes. University of Canterbury civil and natural resources engineering lecturer Brendon Bradley has been awarded the money as part of a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. Bradley, currently at Stanford University as part of an… Read More »$800,000 for earthquake research
Alluring sex traps are getting pest insects into sticky situations and putting New Zealand’s apples a bite above their overseas counterparts. Plant and Food Research scientists are eliminating the need to use pesticides with “green” pest control techniques. Plant and Food Research’s Dr Flore Mas is part of a team… Read More »Insects caught in `sex traps'
Recorded in home-built studios made from cupboards, blankets, polystyrene and a bath, Laura Hunter’s first EP, Quiet Underwater, conforms to nothing. It’s as much a reinvention as Hunter’s hometown, post-quake Christchurch. Mashing upbeat pop songs, drum and bass, and everything electronic, it is, she says, “experimental”. Experimentation is her catchphrase.… Read More »Music one big experiment for rising star
