Hawke's Bay

Police are trying to find the people responsible for firing a gun at a house in Napier on Saturday afternoon.

A teenage girl is fighting to keep the national aquarium in Napier open after the government denied the council funds for a redevelopment.

The animal health agency working to eradicate TB in the Hawkes Bay has gained access to two large forestry blocks in order to cull possums.

Central Napier may be picturesque, lined with art deco buildings and palm trees. But people in the city say levels of insecurity are reaching an alarming level.

Police have found multiple firearms after a raid on a Black Power-linked house near Wairoa in northern Hawke's Bay.

Hunters are being warned to have their dogs chipped and trained for kiwi aversion after another death of one of the endangered birds.

A former Labour government Cabinet minister has been elected as the new Hawke's Bay Regional Council chair.

Napier Library has been closed this afternoon after the discovery of picric acid, a potentially explosive substance, in a museum collection.

An investigation into a 2018 fatal helicopter crash has found the pilot lacked training and there was a mystery fuel control fault.

Police are cracking down on gang activity in Wairoa following multiple firearms-related incidents, including one where a house with two children sleeping in it was shot at.

A man charged with assaulting a woman in her 90s and her son in Napier has been remanded in custody.

Police have charged a 25-year-old Wairoa man after the assault of two people at a house in Napier yesterday.

A man who died shortly after being arrested in Hastings last August has been found to have had a heart attack attributed to drug toxicity and physical exertion.

Police are thanking people who helped an elderly man who was seriously injured in an attack in Hastings this morning.

The chair of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Rex Graham, has resigned, much to the surprise of the community and staff.

Iwi in Te Matau-a-Māui are calling for the government to invest in its rohe so it can further develop housing to curb homelessness and invest in the future of its descendants.

A small North Island town's lone supermarket was destroyed by fire - four days on, residents are still coming to terms with the hole it has left in the community.

Two people have been charged in relation to the serious assault of a four-year-old boy in Hawke's Bay last year.

An earthquake has jolted part of the Hawke's Bay this evening.

The Minister for Local Government has rejected the Napier City Council's request to have more time for considering Māori wards.