Stories making headlines around the regions today include a new family home that was built in a jail and, a man who denies making a deal with police.
In a New Zealand first, a family from Dargaville watch as their new home is lifted by crane over the wire of Ngawha prison.
In the Bay of Plenty a man who has confessed to assaulting and robbing two French hitchhikers in Papamoa last year has denied cutting a deal with police.
In Wanganui a truck closes a road on SH3 for hours.
The curtain has come down on the remarkable life of Rotorua-based actor and director Robert Young.
