Hawke's Bay

The mayor of Napier believes the government is failing in its efforts to consult on important new bills to replace the Resource Management Act.

There is a big push to stop people from swimming at the dangerous beach in Napier's city centre.

A man charged with murder over the death of a woman in Napier last week will appear in the city's high court next month.

A man has been arrested after the death of a woman in Marewa, in Napier, on Friday morning.

Police say they will have an increased presence in Tāmaki Makaurau this weekend ahead of Sunday morning's Rugby League World Cup final match between Samoa and Australia.

Police were called to a house at Marewa, Napier, after a woman was found unresponsive.

A plan to build nearly 700 homes on a Napier flood plain is being attacked by a local councillor as making no sense.

Napier Port says it has had a highly successful year, with significant progress on its strategic goals.

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.