People are being urged to avoid drinking, touching or letting their dogs swim in the Wairakei waterway in Papamoa - and in the pond on Double Bay Road.

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25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: Two people have been badly injured after a car crashed into a tree in Tolaga Bay, north of Gisborne, early this morning

25 Dec: Two people are injured after a stabbing in Ngaruawahia, north of Hamilton, overnight

24 Dec: State Highway One through Northland's Waipu is blocked following a crash - leaving 5 people injured, one seriously

24 Dec: Four people have been arrested and 22 fined after a convoy of around 200 boy-racers attempted to set up multiple meets in Wellington last night

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