NZ@Noon: Internet scammers and a heroic save

Rotorua business owner Kerris Browne lost $1500 in a scam involving an Australian holiday home. Photo / Stephen Parker

An internet scam in Rotorua and a heroic rescue in the Far North are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.

A Rotorua businesswoman wants others to know how easy it is to be scammed after losing more than $1500 online.

A Far North man has been credited as a hero after saving two young boys close to drowning on Ninety Mile Beach.

Plenty of young cricket fans showed up at Ahuriri Park in Napier yesterday to play a "different" version of the game.

Falling river levels are killing "thousands" of native fish, says a Pironoa woman.

Need surgery? Whanganui Hospital is not as "limited" as people think, says the Whanganui District Health Board.

A controversial voluntary euthanasia "architect" is on his way to Tauranga.

And finally it was petrol head heaven in Kerikeri on Saturday. Check out the photos here.