NZ@Noon: Hero seeks reunion

Leanne Larsen's first aid training came flooding back when a woman collapsed in front of her and stopped breathing. Photo / Ruth Keber

A Tauranga hero who seeks the woman she saved and a robbery that terrified a tourist in Haumoana are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.

A Tauranga shop assistant wants to meet the customer she kept alive for 12 minutes in a store last week.

Hawke's Bay Police are hunting two men who robbed a Chinese tourist, leaving her "shaken".

High temperatures and extreme humidity almost led to the death of a dog left in a car in Whangarei.

A Rotorua man missing on Lake Rotorua may have had an epileptic seizure while trying to swim for shore.

The opening of a $1.8 million gymnasium in the Wairarapa this week will realise a dream almost 70 years in the making.

And finally, a Wellington man is taking his fridge on tour through Wanganui.