Stricken homeowners and workers will start receiving compensation and emergency payouts within days as Christchurch reels from violent aftershocks and a quake bill that now threatens to exceed $2 billion.At least 100,000 houses...
The US Coast Guard says a floating chilly bin helped save a man whose boat capsized in Lake Huron in northern Michigan. The Coast Guard says the 46-year-old man didn't have a life jacket when his boat overturned. Another man...
Workers left out of pocket by Canterbury's devastating earthquake will be compensated in a Government wage subsidy scheme that could cost up to $100 million.Prime Minister John Key yesterday announced the scheme that will cover...
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