Stories from the regions today: A $1000 cat escapes from an Opaki cattery and fourteen years worth of family photos and videos are stolen from a Napier home.
A missing cat worth $1000 has meant a holiday cut short and heartbreak for a family and a local cattery.
In Napier a mother of four has been robbed of 14 years' worth of photos and videos.
A brazen thief grabs a wallet from a Whangarei teacher's hand.
A powerful painkiller twice as potent as morphine has made its way on to the local black market in the Bay of Plenty.