More photos - this time from the Goodbye Pork Pie Race as it passes through Wanganui
Farndon Rd residents are being shaken and hounded by constant noise.
Meanwhile, a development group is hoping to brand the stretch of SH2 from Waihi to Whakatane as the Goodness Highway.
Koreans in Tauranga are worried about family in their homeland.
But this doesn't seem to bother a Northland journalist who is heading to South Korea.
Residents spoken to on Falloon Settlement Rd, are in favour of a dam despite the fact it would flood 11 of their houses.
Tiki Taane proved a big hit with an unusual audience in Papamoa.
A Whangarei community worker is "blown away" by the support for a single mum who resorted to shoplifting to feed her family.
Ninety Mile Beach is an unforgiving force of nature.
And finally a second man has died following a house fire in Tokoroa.
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