Wild winds battered the lower North Island yesterday causing widespread damage and disruptions across our regions. Stories also making headlines today include a showdown for NZ's best sausage and a shocking drug bust discovery.
Two Mount Maunganui butchers and a Waihi supermarket have been named finalists in a national hunt to find New Zealand's next top sausage.
Police say they were "extremely disappointed" to find two school-aged children living in a house where they busted an indoor cannabis growing operation.
A freelance photographer who captured the Carterton balloon crash tragedy continued his legal fight yesterday to stop the photos being released.
In weather news, gusty winds wreaked havoc in Rotorua yesterday with fallen trees, downed electricity lines, power cuts and flight cancellations.
