NZ@Noon: Pet psychics and Dr Google

Hayden van Hooff (left) had psychic medium Jay Dobson sit down with his pet bulldog Caesar who was stolen then returned earlier in the month. Photo/Warren Buckland

Stories making headlines around the regions today include a Hawke's Bay pet psychic reading the thoughts of a puppy called Caesar and Google saves a little Rotorua girl's life.

A Hawke's Bay pet psychic reads a puppy's thoughts.

Rotorua parents Shaun and Rachel Wyatt don't need to contemplate the role Google played in saving their daughter's life.

Thieves who broke into a Masterton home in broad daylight not only cleaned it out of valuables but bashed two pets into submission.

Craig Cooper from the Northern Advocate pledged to measure the impact of Cyclone Lusi on a local waterfall. He visited the waterfall on Mt Parihaka before, and after the cyclone. Standing in the exact same spot both times.

A Maungatapu man shaved his head in honour of his wife Rachel, who died of cancer earlier this year.

And finally, it took one month, more than 100 pairs of hands, and a colourful array of materials to go into making a unique artwork in Wanganui that will help raise money for charity.