NZ@noon: Students try to sell school

SPOOF SALE: Wanganui Girls' College students (from left) Amy Williamson, Tegan Webster, Renee Harrison and Mia Cutelli started school early yesterday to prep the pranks.PHOTOS/STUART MUNRO

Stories making the headlines around the regions today include upping the ante with a school prank and students go orange to raise awareness.

Wanganui Girls' College have plotted a raft of unpleasant surprises for staff including putting the school up for sale.

Hundreds of school children dressed in neon orange decorated Tauranga's CBD this morning. Find out why here.

Kawakawa kids will miss out on school trips and sporting tournaments after two school vans were stolen and torched in just two weeks.

The Wairarapa Times- Age online community has helped reveal another side to the story about a young Martinborough boy who endured a bruising ride at the Wairarapa A&P Show.

A Rotorua teenager has decided to leave school to dance his way into the New Zealand School of Dance in Wellington.

Waikato's highest office in the heart of Hamilton's CBD seems a fitting location to house one of the New Zealand's fastest growing tech companies.

Finally, which region is the shakiest in New Zealand? The answer may surprise you.