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.
Napier is set to stage one of Hawke's Bay's biggest sports events with confirmation of an All Blacks Rugby Championship test happening there.
Wairarapa has new pools swimming with 16 tonnes of eels.