People are queueing outside Tauranga's Bayfair Shopping Centre trying to buy Lotto tickets, and a 'menace on the roads' is jailed. These are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.
Queues of people buying Lotto tickets ahead of tonight's must-win draw are already stretching out the door at Bayfair Shopping Centre.
A 33-year-old Whangarei man described as a "menace on the roads" has been jailed for four months and banned from driving for a year and a half after he led police on a pursuit through residential streets.
A reward of $5000 is being offered as part of a quest to find a painted mural that went missing from the Wairoa Centennial Library in 2001.
Long-serving Rotorua police area commander Inspector Bruce Horne is to retire at the end of the year after more than 30 years on the force.