NZ@Noon: Hooning drivers and mushroom maelstrom

TRAIL OF DAMAGE: Matapouri residents heard a bang and looked outside to see this car wrapped around a pole on Saturday. Kelly Ellis with the two family vehicles damaged by a 30-year-old boy racer on Saturday. PHOTOS/JOHN STONE.

Hooning drivers causing chaos in Northland and jobs at risk after a mushroom factory is prosecuted are just two of the stories making headlines today around the regions.

Cars and gates were damaged and two alleged "boy racers" arrested after a spate of incidents around Northland.

The owner of Te Mata Mushrooms has lashed out at Hawke's Bay Regional Council, saying its prosecution over an alleged breach of resource consent conditions amounts to a bid to have the company shut down.

The trauma of the weekend floods had some Wanganui people in tears as they made their way back home.

A cat hit by a car will undergo therapy to learn how to walk on three legs.

Tauranga residents have less confidence in the safety of cycling on the city's roads than they did a year ago.

Finally, a Wairarapa baker is getting his thinking cap on to try to retain his Supreme Pie Award.

This year the Potato Top Pie is a new category.