Hawkes Bay

Hastings mayor and Local Government New Zealand president Lawrence Yule has put his name forward to be the National Party candidate for Tukituki.

The Hastings District Council is warning it will have to ban outdoor water use if residents do not conserve water.

A coroner in Hawke's Bay has ruled that a young woman deliberately drove her car into another vehicle in an attempt to commit suicide.

A man went through a plate glass window during a fight at a McDonald's restaurant in Napier last night.

The dog that bit a five-year-old boy in Wairoa last week has this morning been destroyed by the local pound.

A Hastings dairy owner has been punched several times then threatened by his attacker's partner with an axe, police say.

Police want to talk to a man who helped a cyclist after a hit-and-run in Napier.

The death of a 38-year-old Napier woman, whose body was found on a beach, is not being treated as suspicious.

A woman's body has washed ashore on a private beach at Tangoio, north of Napier.

Police in Napier say a man wanted over a hit-and-run had been fighting with the victim beforehand.

Hawke's Bay motorists are being warned about delays on the Napier-Taihape Rd, as workers clear logs that have fallen off a truck.

The Ministry of Education will review its guidelines for toilet cubicle design, in light of a coroner's report on the death of a boy at a Napier school last year.

A scathing coroner's report has found the death of a Napier schoolboy strangled trying to get out of a locked toilet cubicle was a tragedy that "could and should have been avoided". Audio

An exclusion zone has been set up around four containers at Napier's port after a chemical spill this morning.

Pilot George Anderson and his passenger, Robert Solouota, died in the crash that cut power to the region for 33 hours.

Police have named the second man who died when a top-dressing plane crashed into powerlines near Wairoa.