Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a family who miraculously survived a tsunami and Paul Holmes formally becomes a Sir.
A new movie about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has triggered harrowing memories for a Rolleston family who miraculously survived.
As Sir Paul Holmes prepares to be formally knighted this afternoon, here's a photo gallery recording his long career in broadcasting.
Despite the police patrol vehicle's windows being up on April Fools Day, they could smell cannabis wafting from a Tikipunga house as they drove past.
The Northland rescue helicopter crew was preparing to land with an emergency patient onboard when someone started shining a high-powered green laser light into the cockpit.