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Gardening: The best plants for your pool
Landscape gardener and Life columnist Justin answers your questions.
Calls for Govt to step in to keep poppies on shore
The Government is being asked to step in and make sure ANZAC Day poppies stay New Zealand-made.
Anzac Day poppies to be made offshore
Anzac Day Poppies will be made offshore, New Zealand's Returned Service Association has announced.
Quake claims among highest in world
More than 80 per cent of Christchurch households have filed insurance claims for the Canterbury quake.
EQC: 'Couple of things we might have done better'
Communication with Canterbury quake victims could have been better, the Earthquake Commission said today.
Woman charged with murder of newborn baby
A 27-year-old Christchurch woman charged with murdering her new born child has been remanded in custody for a psychiatric report.
Travellers snap up new carrier's cheap airfares
More than 43,000 seats were sold within three days of Air Asia X's launch in New Zealand last week.
James Griffin: Violent night, holy night
Among the many terrible and tragic headlines appearing in the newspapers of late, one that is not only terrible and tragic but also potentially rather disturbing leapt out at me: "Call for alcohol ban after Xmas concert ends in violence."
Soccer: Sigmund sinks Adelaide
Ben Sigmund scored a late match-winner as the Wellington Phoenix came back to secure three valuable points against Adelaide Utd in Christchurch tonight.
Crime on the rise
A mystery wrapped in an enigma is the very apt winner of the inaugural New Zealand crime-writing award.