The dolphin carcass believed to be that of Moko was removed from Matakana Island by DOC staff this afternoon and will be sent to Massey University for an autopsy.

Team New Zealand is among dozens of organisations that have lost their charitable status in a crackdown by the new Charities Commission.

Whakatane District Council has an estimated $3.2 million clean-up bill following last week's flood that left more than 110 houses uninhabitable.

The captain of a fishing trawler befriended by Moko reckons the tunes of AC/DC might be part of the allure.

The director has agreed to become the first patron of Opotiki's De Luxe Theatre, in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

Black Power members say they want to track down the attacker of a boy, 4, so they can deal to him before police.

An eyewitness to an attack on school principal and councillor Hawea Vercoe, told a court his head was kicked like a rugby ball.