Children at Maungarangi Kindergarten in Welcome Bay said their final goodbyes in a special burial of their pet chicken, Brownie, who was killed Monday night.
A beloved pet gets killed in Welcome Bay and kereru hunting in Northland are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.
A Welcome Bay kindergarten want to know - who killed Brownie the chicken?
Apparently, kereru are still being hunted in Northland's
forests.
This Rotorua rider is may now be one kidney lighter but he remains a sharp as ever.
"From one flood victim to the other" - a Wanganui family who lost almost everything in the floods are touched by the kindness and generosity of the locals, one of whom sent them a soft and cuddly new friend.