A Dunedin financial adviser, who put his $15.7 million Ponzi scheme down to "overconfidence", lacks insight into his crimes after more than five years behind bars, the Parole Board says.

Invercargill resident Mia Padgett, 12, has a crack at the Beat the Buzz activity in the New Zealand International Science Festival hub in Meridian Mall, Dunedin.

A man’s girlfriend became so enraged at seeing him in a recent photo with his family that she waited outside a school for his wife and then followed her in the car.

Police say the theft of copper cable and bells from a Hawke's Bay railway bridge and level crossings could lead to a fatal accident.