By ALEXANDER, Miriyana Hanmer Springs has been revitalising the masses for more than 100 years. Miriyana Alexander lays back, exhales slowly and basks in the hot pools to find out how.

About five tonnes of cream spilled from a tanker-trailer after it rolled on the Lewis Pass highway yesterday. The accident reduced the road to one lane for about four hours.

Patients of all ages will be eligible for cut-price GP visits from July after the final roll-out of government subsidies.

A $13,500-a-course residential drug and alcohol centre has opened in Christchurch, just a few years after the Ministry of Health deemed the South Island over-supplied with residential addiction treatment beds.

The sale of thousands of hectares of forest by Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) to an overseas consortium should have little impact on the district, say mayors in North Canterbury.