Some stories making headlines across the regions today include: A little girl in Tauranga has made hundreds of loom bands to donate to sick children after she was sick herself, a man was hit in the face with a chainsaw in Hawke's Bay and, an infected Rotorua man bit a woman after she woke him from a nap.
Macayla McAlley has spent hours making hundreds of loom bands to donate to sick children at the Tauranga Hospital.
An infected Rotorua man has been sentenced to prison for biting a woman.
The Lowe Corporation rescue helicopter had a full on day attending four accidents around the bay, one being a man who was hit in the face with a chainsaw.
Targeted thefts of firearms from Northland homes have police concerned the lethal weapons are falling into the hands of criminals.
