A multi-vehicle pile up in Hawkes Bay has put 10 people in hospital, three with critical injuries, say police. Two tourists, one German and one Italian, are among those injured.

A knife-wielding man commandeered a Mr Whippy van and hurled ice creams at passersby, a court has been told.

I have in my hand a taonga. A treasure. Well, it's a treasure to me anyway. And I don't have it in my hand, obviously, otherwise how would I be able to type?

'First drop your pie' was the lesson for one of the Hastings crew who cycled into Parliament to prove their weight loss programme was working.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

A man pulled from his burning truck just before it exploded will never forget his rescuers.

Police have praised the actions of a group of "heroes" who risked their lives to pull three people from the wreckage of a crash in Hawke's Bay.

A Hastings man has been arrested after a 55-year-old man was seriously injured in an alleged assault yesterday.

A 32-year-old woman is in intensive care after being stabbed multiple times with a knife in Hastings this morning, police say.

Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.