Vandals have caused more than $55,000 worth of damage to Tauranga public toilets this year.
Heartbreak for the staff at the Wanganui City Mission with their new premises burgled for the second time this month.
Charges have been laid against a Napier company in relation to a listeria outbreak at Hawke's Bay Hospital last year.
"Help me, koro, help me," were the last words anyone heard from 17-year-old Hughie George Rangiteremauri Biddle.
Heavy rain and a leaky roof have been identified as the likely cause of the fire that destroyed the Opononi Four Square store on Sunday night.
Home brew was the undoing of a Wanganu man after he blew more than twice the legal limit.
Finally, the country may be in the grip of a cold snap but the cold weather has saved some students from being nabbed at home during a big police round-up of high school truants in Whangarei and Dargaville.
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