NZ@Noon: A nightmare on Labour Day for pub

Who stole Freddy? Photo / Peter de Graaf

Stories making headlines around the regions today includes a search for Freddy Krueger and a government policy is holding back a student from graduating.

Where's Freddy? A Northland Tavern and RSA are appealing for the return of Freddy Krueger, of Nightmare on Elm St fame, after he was kidnapped at Labour weekend.

A government policy that has been called "ridiculous, ageist and lacking common sense" is hindering a nursing student from completing a qualification at Whanganui UCOL.

The Hawkes Bay rural landscape is going through the mid-stages of spring - but there is a little more pink about this season than just the usual blossom.

Tuhoe has clarified claims hunters with Department of Conservation-issued permits have been "banished" from the Urewera Ranges.

Newly elected Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller has spoken for the first time in Parliament, wearing a korowai cloak given to him by two founding families of Te Puna.

Wairarapa farmer David Buick scored the biggest win of his shearing career on Saturday in Australia's top crossbred shearing event, the Romney Shears Open at Warrnambool, Victoria.

And finally, Peter Jackson, editor of the Northland Age writes about big corporate stores taking over and forcing local shops to give up the ghost.