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Scrapbook goes home

A rare All Blacks scrapbook stolen and sold to an antique dealer is back with its owner.

Armada on the Heathcote

Children and adults rafted down the Heathcote River yesterday in the annual Christchurch City Council- organised race.

Govt oversight for XT review

By JOHN HARTEVELT - The Press

The Government will get oversight of an independent review into the Telecom XT mobile network failures.

Staff miss wages

By MARTIN VAN BEYNEN - The Press

A Blenheim vineyard contractor was continually in trouble with Labour Department inspectors over record-keeping, an Employment Relations Authority (ERA) decision shows.

Ashley fires 'suspicious'

By DAVID WILLIAMS - The Press

"Mindless" firebugs lit more than 10 separate fires during 90 chaotic minutes along the Ashley River banks yesterday.

Easing hospital workloads

Some ambulance patients are being treated by nurses and others redirected to GPs as health managers try to stem skyrocketing attendances at Christchurch Hospital's emergency department (ED).

Centre changed my life, says woman

A Christchurch woman says the 198 Youth Health Centre "changed my life".

Sitting comes at a price

Police upset by 'stupid' motorists

Wildfoods festival boost

hokitika The Hokitika Wildfoods Festival gained from being named among the world's unmissable festivals by a travel-guide company, organisers say.

Mine work plan fell 'well short'

A West Coast coalminer swept to his death four years ago was unaware walls were being blasted within five metres of flooded mine workings, an inquest has been told.

Theft of rare book 'guts' son

West Coast health options sought

Hunters may have lit fires

Residents of a tiny West Coast town believe irresponsible hunters may be behind nearby scrub fires which endangered the world's rarest kiwi.

Key supports phasing whaling out

Prime Minister John Key says killing whales is akin to murder but he is supportive of reaching an agreement to allow some whaling if it reduces the numbers taken.

Fiji cabinet minister in NZ

A top cabinet minister in Fiji's military regime has been allowed into New Zealand to attend a football meeting in Auckland.

Sharples slams treatment of Asians

Conservation mining document

Shipley rules out role

Dame Jenny Shipley has put an end to weeks of speculation she is to become an Environment Canterbury (ECan) commissioner.

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