Kia Ora, my name is Lucy Bendell.
I am covering the Tourism round for 1st year Journalism Students at the New Zealand Broadcasting School.
Facebook editor for METRO News
Email: lcb0090@arastudent.ac.nz
Community board position hotly contested
Seven candidates to contest Linwood-Central-Heathcote board by-election.
Calls for more street art to curb graffiti
The Christchurch City Council spends $700,000 a year to clean up graffiti.
Tourism in need of a government with a vision
The election is approaching and the new Government in power must have the vision to revitalise the tourism industry.
Tourism Industry 'monitoring' lockdown updates
Canterbury and most of New Zealand have moving into Level 2 and the tourism industry is unsure what will happen to the sector.
New programme launched to promote businesses
A new city-wide approach is launching to grow more high-value businesses and jobs throughout Christchurch.
A frosty start to your Tuesday morning
Traffic is light to moderate but getting heavier, while the temperature... pretty much, it's cold.
Pharmacy worker stole over $700 worth of drugs
A 44-year-old woman took nearly 50 bottles of drugs including codeine and sudomyl.
Man pleads guilty to killing father-of-two
Father was on a bike ride with daughter during lockdown before being hit and killed by a van.
Woman slapped her mum with a shoe
Judge imposes six-month prison sentence on woman who assaulted her mother in a car, while her own daughter was in the backseat.
Fifth isolation facility in Christchurch
Christchurch now has five isolation facilities and 31 facilities around New Zealand, but how do New Zealand's isolation facilities work?
Tourism sector wants wage support extension
The Covid-19 wage subsidy will not be extended and it's likely to result in significant job losses across the tourism sector.
Budget didn't fulfil tourism industry's wishes
Tourism businesses had hoped for more than an eight-week extension to the wage subsidy.
Tourism in 'extended hibernation'
Local authorities in Canterbury are banding together to help the tourism industry recover after Covid-19.