Tauranga's hungry are getting a vital boost to their diets with the addition of milk powder in community food parcels.
A small coffin holding a magnum of Coruba signifies the last year of the famous Coruba fishing competition at the Hawke's Bay Sport Fishing Club.
Mill closure rumours are rife in Wairoa with the mothballed rail line possibly the final straw for Clyde Lumber.
The occupants of a utility vehicle which was crushed ''as flat as a pancake" after it plunged about 50m down a steep face near Lee Stream are lucky to be alive.
It cost $4000 to fly a "well-known Nelson climber" out of the South Westland bush, in what police say was an abuse of the system.
Top trending topics on Twitter in NZ at noon were: StrugglesOfBeingFromNewZealand, #skipfollowme, #MasterChefNZ, #USA7s, SNL, Happy Chinese New Year, Grammys, Skip and New Zealand
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