Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include the return of the robin to Gisborne, rising crime in Oamaru and the Otago annual keg party.
For the first time in at least 100 years, the North Island robin is back breeding in Gisborne.
The mother of a teenage Napier girl murdered almost 26 years ago doubts the killer still behind bars will ever give up the gang scene in which the tragedy happened.