Twenty-three boaties are caught fishing in a protected area, a former Home and Away star is arrested and Bluff turns into a "winter wonderland".
1 'Disappointing': 23 boaties caught fishing in protected area
Twenty-three boats were caught fishing in a protected area near Tauranga over the summer period — prompting the Bay of Plenty Regional Council to issue a reminder to skippers of the rules.
Three offshore reefs surrounding Motiti Island have been protected since August 2021 after the council was instructed by the Environment Court to better look after the area.
Regulatory compliance manager Matt Harrex said settled weather meant the regional council was able to conduct more regular patrols of the area.
2 Road user charges for all drivers? What Govt's policy will mean for you
The Government wants to shift gears on how it funds transportation.
At the moment, Kiwi drivers pay for the land transport system in a few different ways, including the vehicle license (or "rego") fee, road user charges (RUC), and the petrol excise duty (PED).
However, the Government's pledged to move away from the fuel excise tax and have electronic road user charges in place for all vehicles.
1News examines how that might look for New Zealand drivers in the coming years.
3 Former Home and Away star arrested after police manhunt
A former Home and Away star has been arrested after he failed to appear in an Australian court for an assault matter.
Orpheus Pledger appeared on the popular soap from 2016 until 2019 and notched stints on Neighbours in 2011 and SAS Australia in 2022.
Victoria Police announced a warrant had been issued for the 30-year-old's arrest yesterday.
He was arrested this afternoon, a police spokeswoman confirmed.
4 'Flicked a switch' - Hailstorm turns Bluff into 'winter wonderland'
The streets of our southernmost town were left blanketed in white, after an "intense" hailstorm in the area this morning.
Truck driver Carl Kirkbeck was bringing new fish bins out to the factories in Bluff when he noticed a dark cloud over the town around 7.30am.
"Looking at Bluff, it was jet black. It was a black you cannot describe," he told 1News.
5 Why was Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned and what next?
The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era that began in 2017 and helped launch the #MeToo movement.
Click here for what you need to know about why Weinstein's rape conviction was thrown out and what happens next.
ONE BIZARRE STORY
A former Arkansas mortuary worker has pleaded guilty to selling 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly US$11,000 (NZ$18,500).
She was among several charged recently in what prosecutors have called a nationwide scheme to steal and sell human body parts from an Arkansas mortuary and Harvard Medical School.
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