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Interiors: A bach of good luck
The opportunity to buy an admired holiday home was one family’s good fortune.
Fearless gran cleans up sword-wielding attacker
An 81-year-old great grandmother fought off a Samurai sword-wielding man, armed only with a plastic brush.
Mackenzie Country: Magic among the mountains
Photographer Sarah Ivey, who grew up in the Mackenzie Country, uses her camera to introduce the rugged beauty of a place few New Zealanders have visited.
Suppression stays for baby murder accused
A judge this afternoon ruled that name suppression should continue for a 28-year-old woman accused of murdering her newborn baby.
NZ consumer confidence lifts in January
The first ANZ Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence survey of the new year has recorded a rise in consumer confidence, particularly in earthquake-hit Canterbury, but the survey's authors say households are still cautious.
Man sexually assaults woman he met on internet
A 24-year-old Christchurch fisherman broke into the home of a woman he met months earlier on an internet dating site and sexually assaulted her, a court was told today.
Flurry of tremors jolt Canterbury
The aftershocks keep coming for Canterbury, with another 3.9 magnitude quake near Christchurch this afternoon following this morning's 5.1 tremor.
Quake shook house 'like dog with a bone'
Tony Stuart awoke today wondering how much more damage his house could absorb after the latest aftershock in Canterbury.