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The Government today rezoned another 255 orange zone homes in quake-ravaged eastern Christchurch.

A woman has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing more than $170,000 worth of apples from the Hawke's Bay company that had employed her for 15 years.

A man suffered serious head injuries following a gas explosion at a Tauranga scrap metal yard this morning.

A man who collapsed and died while he was being arrested in a Levin block of flats has been named by police.

A family is fighting to stop its boxer-cross dog being put down after it bit a man on their property.

New Zealand's two professional heavyweight boxing title holders won't be squaring off any time soon.

There was no fencing around a stack of logs in the grounds of a Motueka school where a 5-year-old was killed last night, police said.

A controversial report claiming helmets increase cyclists' injuries has been rubbished by experts.

Victims' distraught families want police to find who is responsible for the substandard Canterbury Television building that collapsed in the February earthquake, killing 115 people.

The Prime Ministers' limousine bill topped $100,000 for the last three months of 2011 - part of a total $1.24 million increase in the cost of MPs' travel and accommodation during the election campaign and Rugby World Cup.