Stories making the headlines around the country today include a boastful burglar getting a taste of his own medicine and employers, who are testing for synthetic cannabis use, are unable to find staff.
A man took the law into his own hands after recognising a boastful burglar ona Rotorua street.
Drug use is reaching "pandemic" levels with some employers unable to fill their job vacancies because they can't find workers who can pass a drug test, says one of the region's mayors.
Tauranga parking offenders have been stung nearly $1.3 million so far this financial year and the courts are investigating thousands of cases where offenders have failed to pay their fines.
The government has announced support of up to $1.9 million per year to the Kickstart Breakfast programme but one Stratford princiipal says the scheme is too exclusive.
The historic church by the urupa at Pehiaweri Marae, Glenbervie, is being given a new lease of life by a team of students and their tutor.
The creative mastermind behind Air New Zealand's bare-naked Nothing to Hide campaign will apply her award-wining body art to Miss Taranaki as part of Stratford Art Society's bold Fashion Frenzy exhibition.
