Stories making headlines around the regions today include: sponsors add spark to Hawke's Bay's bike culture and a Kiwi designer makes it big on US reality TV.
Former Hawera High School student Sean Kelly is making a big splash in the Big Apple with his winning designs on Project Runway.
Losing about 70km of hand-built mountain bike trails in a large block of Pan Pac forest north of Napier has not deterred members of the Hawke's Bay Mountain Bike Club who have begun "fast-tracking" the development of 50km of new trails.
Fire destroyed a large workshop and storage shed at an award-winning egg farm east of Masterton yesterday.
There were three assaults and six serious verbal threats in Bay of Plenty Work and Income branches, including Rotorua, last year.
