Remuera man apologises to "his community" for six-foot scarecrow, keeps scarecrow
Grant Stoke's apology video runs eleven minutes. Desmond the scarecrow is still on the berm, facing the hedge now!
Sharon Ngatai
Sharon files stories and reader letters with equal passion for mall drama.
Nawton cloud ignores MetService, rains on four streets for six hours straight
The rest of Hamilton got "fine, becoming fine". Nawton got the one cloud, and it has not moved.
Ponsonby petition to ban leaf blowers before 10am Sunday — bloke doing the blowing has also signed it
214 signatures in four days, at least three of them from Herne Bay, which nobody asked for.
Alexandra public loos shut for "wellness refurbishment" — nobody knows what that means
Central Otago District Council has padlocked the town's busiest dunnies for six weeks. Rail Trail season started Monday.
Welcome Bay mall Santa accused of upselling photo packages to crying toddlers
The Bronze package is one photo. The Platinum is eleven photos, a keyring, and a chat about your credit limit.
Mount Eden woman drives three hours to Papamoa for one sunny Tuesday, comes back the colour of a road cone
She put sunscreen on once, at the Z in Bombay, and reckons that "should've done it".
Royal commission of inquiry into Johnsonville camellia delivers 340-page findings
Eighteen months. Fourteen witnesses. One shrub. Wellington City Council found to have acted "with characteristic indecision".
Avonside noticeboard feud over leaf blowers enters sixth week, now has footnotes
What started as one A4 printout is now a six-page dossier with a laminated map.
Kmart Hamilton's 'treasure hunt' promotion is just staff asking customers where things are
Prize for finding the missing air fryer is, reportedly, the air fryer at RRP.
Upper Hutt man pushes rogue Countdown trolley 14km home from Wellington CBD
Neville found it on Lambton Quay. He walked it back over the hill. He is, by his own admission, buggered.
Auckland apprentice, 17, spent six hours looking for tartan paint — lads on site 'genuinely impressed'
He also came back with a receipt for a long weight from Bunnings Manukau. Staff say he waited quietly for four hours.
Wakefield scarecrow named best dressed at awards night that never happened
The scarecrow, known locally as Bevan, has been given a sash by persons unknown and is refusing all interviews.
Hawthorndale chemist stripped of panadol 48 hours before forecast drizzle
It was a Tuesday morning in Hawthorndale. Nothing about that day suggested what was about to unfold.
Atawhai footpath upgrade halted by single camellia with better lawyer than the council
Nelson City Council contractors have downed tools over a shrub. The shrub has not commented.
Papamoa op shop $2 mug sparks bidding war, two retirees no longer speaking
The mug had a chip in it. The bidders did not care.
Northcote heatwave cancels Saturday sport but sausage sizzle soldiers on at 28 degrees
The kids can't run around in it, but Barry from the rugby club reckons he can stand next to a hot plate for four hours no worries.
Ruakura school gala gold-coin crisis enters seventh hour as parents turn on each other
Sources describe a queue for the sausage sizzle that had 'gone feral' by 11.15am.
Islington chippie's toolbox nicked — sausage sizzle raises $43 and a loaf of budget bread
The Mitre 10 carpark fundraiser had a queue of six and an argument about onion placement.
Auckland builder on Opoho rebuild names every nail, downs tools until greeted properly
The framing nails are called Terrence. All of them. There are 4,000.
Royal commission finds Rangiora Woolworths self-checkout 'emotionally dependent' on customers
Two years of hearings, 47 witnesses, one broken barcode scanner — the Commission has spoken.