NZ@Noon: Missing cat worth $1000

Echo, an 11-month-old Bengal Asian leopard cat is missing. Photo/Supplied

Stories from the regions today: A $1000 cat escapes from an Opaki cattery and fourteen years worth of family photos and videos are stolen from a Napier home.

A missing cat worth $1000 has meant a holiday cut short and heartbreak for a family and a local cattery.

In Napier a mother of four has been robbed of 14 years' worth of photos and videos.

A brazen thief grabs a wallet from a Whangarei teacher's hand.

A powerful painkiller twice as potent as morphine has made its way on to the local black market in the Bay of Plenty.

An intersection in Wanganui gets a new speed limit, for a good reason.

And Go Girls actress Bronwyn Turei is set to star on Rotorua's Blue Baths stage.