Following the death of an American from H5N1 bird flu recently, a Dunedin evolutionary virologist believes it is "a matter of when, not if" the virus arrives in New Zealand.
Floating gracefully through the air at high speed, twisting and turning like in aerial ballet, you could just about set the moves of high-performing mountainbikers to music.
A Central Otago man who aimed a firearm at police and took a patrol car on a 270km spin chose to serve his entire jail term because it was "in the public interest".
Before a quiet Christchurch man seemingly vanished from his St Albans home, a note was left on his front door with only the word "farm" scrawled across it.