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Christchurch may soon become an international name for transport and technology. Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel told Chris Lynch the city is continuing to establish itself as a hub for transport and aerospace development.  This includes initiatives such as the world’s first self-piloted electric air taxi. Dalziel says if her city can continue to trial these …

By RNZ Taggers in Christchurch will find it harder to escape detection in future with the city’s adoption of innovative technology to map and track graffiti. Manager of the city council’s Smart Christchurch Programme Michael Healy said the new software analyses each photo of graffiti sent by the public and contractors to identify and catch …

The city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional Māori mihi whakatau – a formal welcome – as his presence, and liberty, in New Zealand once again underscores the country’s political differences with Australia over immigration. Boochani was formally greeted from the plane by the mayor of Christchurch and …

More than 10,000 firearms have been bought by New Zealand’s government in less than a month as part of its gun buyback scheme following the Christchurch mosque shootings in March. Following the killing of 51 people in two inner-city Christchurch mosques by an Australian white supremacist, prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s government rushed through legislation to …

The suspected gunman in an attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US, online posts suggest. Police in Norway have so far only said the attack in Baerum, a town 20km from Oslo, the capital, will be investigated as a possible act …

Dozens of Christchurch gun owners have handed over their weapons in exchange for cash in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than $NZ200,000 in total to 68 gun owners in the first few hours of the …