Hawke's Bay

Patrons at a Hastings bar narrowly avoided being shot, when a gun was fired into the entrance way.

An opening date has finally been confirmed for the Hawke's Bay Airport's forecourt, more than a year after it was due to be finished.

Two years on from a freak flood, Paul Matthews has been told his severely damaged home needs to be demolished.

An iwi group in Wairoa has come up with what it's calling an innovative kaupapa Māori way to help solve the town's housing crisis.

Napier is set to trial e-scooters, joining the growing list of cities using the new urban transport method.

A reclusive amateur gun-maker who liked to tinker in his shed amassed a small arsenal of home-made and improvised weapons including several pistols, a taser, and a firearm made out of a torch.

A large scrub fire on a mountain peak in the Hawke's Bay last night is suspected to have been caused by fireworks.

Police in Napier say they tried to get a vehicle to stop just minutes before it crashed, killing a young woman.

Just shy of midnight on Saturday an innocuous inner-city house-lined street was the scene of "absolute chaos" in which one young person was killed and others were critically injured.

A car that crashed in Napier last night, killing one of the occupants, had nine people in it.

An iwi plan to convert a Hastings lodge into accommodation for whānau battling the justice system has run into opposition from the local council.

Ovation of the Seas sailed in to Napier from Tahiti, and arrived in Wellington on Tuesday.

The woman, who stole more than $1000 worth of frozen food from a foreign seasonal workers' hostel, seemed pleased with her sentence.

Searchers looking for a diver who had not surfaced have recovered a body, at a Hawke's Bay beach.

A 22 year-old-man has been arrested after the death of another man in the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere.

New details have emerged about teenager Ariki Rigby's killing, with her heartbroken sister saying she believes she was beaten to death before the car she was in was torched.

Mana whenua in Clive (Waipūreku) in Hawke's Bay (Te-Matau-a-Māui) are taking bold steps to reclaim the name of a nearby river, which they say was "usurped" from them.

A Napier City councillor has expressed concern around the number of staff leaving the council, just days before the chief executive announced her resignation.

The youth unit at Hawke's Bay Regional Prison is still not ready to be open, two months after a protest caused significant damage.

One Waipukurau farmer says livestock and people are getting tired of the challenging conditions that have been ongoing for the past three months.