Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a disco where people squirt paint at each other, a massive whale beaches on the east coast and if you think electronic smokes are healthy, you might have to think again.
Fourteen "promo girls" will squirt more than 100 litres of neon paint over a scantily clad crowd in a Rotorua nightclub tonight, where some of the participants "are stupid and some are all right, so we will see what happens".
After 60 years of roaming the open oceans, the 50 tonne sperm whale chose Mahia Beach as its final resting place. Meanwhile a tropical turtle that washed up on Ninety Mile Beach this week also didn't make it.
New research suggests electronic cigarettes could be doing more harm than good. Perhaps make your own health crackers instead.
Two weeks out from daylight saving and Northland have shivered through its coldest day of the year.
