Stories making headlines across the regions include: Rotorua gets a zippy new attraction and there is a fundraising auction being held for assaulted toddler Caleb Skinner in Masterton.
Rotorua has a new adrenaline-pumping attraction that lets people fly down the side of Mt Ngongotaha.
A fundraising auction for assaulted toddler Caleb Skinner will be held at the Masterton RSA.
Who ate all the pies? A hungry thief in Wanganui accounts for eight.
For the first time in more than four centuries, the sails of a waka from mainland New Zealand appeared on the horizon off the Chatham Islands being navigated by a man from Clive.