Tracy Watson has repaired the same fence seven times in three years because of vehicles crashing through it as they exit the Pekatahi Bridge, just south of Whakatāne.
Turkey has stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel, the Turkish trade ministry said, citing "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the Palestinian territories.
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson, who introduced a contentious requirement for voters to show photo ID while voting, was turned away from a polling station for forgetting to bring his.
New Zealand's foreign minister Winston Peters described the country's relationship with China as "complex," and called out the hardening rhetoric across the Taiwan Strait, human rights violations...
There are some doubts about the government-enforced cellphone ban in schools - with one student questioning how it will be implemented when teachers cannot even stop students vaping.
International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers.
Time to put another blanket on the bed — May looks like it will get off to a chillier-than-usual start, but long-term weather forecasters believe it will be followed by "milder conditions" in June...