Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include an outer-body experience for a Greerton teen and Otago students falling off roofs.
Greerton teenager Josiah Iraia says he remembers looking down at himself drowning as he lay unconscious in the water.
It is O-Week in Dunedin and students are breaking bones and knocking themselves unconscious.
After Oamaru businessman Lance Streeter discovered social media, a fair proportion of his business now comes from clients outside of the town.
Michael David McIntyre celebrated avoiding prison for his seventh drink-driving charge by having a boozy session which ended badly.