Stories making headlines around the regions include a wacky inventor who developed the dead cat carrier and a bodybuilder who became a steroid kingpin.
There's no limit to the inventiveness of Raoul Lealand.
Mr Athletic was steroid kingpin.
Cooking hot chips for dinner almost cost Dennis Sloan his life.
A Rotorua farmer was about to leave for a fishing trip when he saw flames closing in on his house.