Some stories that are making headlines across our regions today: Kids get to challenge their sporting heroes in Rotorua, a Hawke's Bay student thinks household robots aren't just a fantasy and walls of dead animals line the car park of a Wairarapa bar.
It's not every day youngsters can challenge their sporting heroes to a race down the slopes of Skyline Rotorua.
Nearly 40 pigs, along with deer, goats, rabbits, hares and possums, made up several walls of bloody fur in the carpark of the Wairarapa Homestead Bar.
An endless video loop of cooking shows could hold the key to robots that can unstack a dishwasher and play Lego with the kids, a Hawke's Bay student of robotics says.
