Stories making headlines around the regions today include a man who attacked a police car just outside Napier District Court, and the Whanganui River has become a "dumping ground".
A man has allegedly attacked a police car outside Napier District Court just a week after being released from prison.
Dead sheep and pigs, household waste - and 15 broken televisions and computers have been dumped along the Whanganui River.
The Independent Police Conduct Authority will formally apologise to the Legg family for giving them the wrong information.
Two of what is believed to be the only cases of botulism in New Zealand's history occurred in Rotorua during the 1980s.