Every third week, my job at the Tampa Bay area daily newspaper changes a bit. Instead of editing the nation/world, metro or business sections, I tackle zones.
Zones is short for zoned sections -- localized sections put out by the paper to appeal to readers in the suburbs or certain city neighborhoods. They contain a lot of "chicken dinner" news: community events listings, theater reviews, school news. It's the stuff readers can actually use.
But it can be deathly dull to edit. One of the other copy editors here says the sections are aptly named, as she zones out whenever she works on them.