An intoxicated man led police on a dramatic chase across rooftops in central Hastings yesterday, before he was tackled, cuffed and removed by a fire truck ladder.

Seven people were taken to hospital with broken bones, cuts and abrasions after the van they were in crashed into a drain yesterday afternoon.

A number of quad bike accidents ending in death and injury over the holiday period has renewed calls for users to take greater care when using the vehicles.

A doctor on duty when a group of injured people were brought in after a quad bike crash says innocent people will continue to be hurt if there is not a change in attitudes towards alcohol.

A little girl was fighting for her life in the Starship last night as police investigated whether four adults riding with her on a quad bike that crashed should be charged.

Police are deciding whether charges should be laid against the four drunk adults who took a 6-year-old girl on a quad bike that crashed and left her injured.

A 17-year-old was in police custody last night after a car sought since a mid-afternoon chase stretching more than 15km crashed in a narrow suburban Napier street.

The new year looks a whole lot better for one lucky person, who picked up $15 million in the Big Wednesday draw last night.

Seven gang members have been arrested following an all-in brawl involving a meat cleaver, hammer and axe in Hastings today.

Education officials have contacted Mayfair School after a gas canister exploded and injured a parent on the school grounds.

A gas cooker has exploded at a Hawkes Bay school, injuring one person, emergency services say.

A young girl and a mother of two formed a secret relationship that lasted for months before fleeing across the North Island, posing as mother and daughter.

A man has died after a car crashed into a drain near Hastings early this morning.

Hastings police are still seeking information to help them solve an attack in which a female fast-food worker was punched and held at knifepoint on Thursday.

A dangerous prisoner who bit his partner badly on the cheek and was granted bail to attend his son's funeral has disappeared.

The Christchurch family of a man fatally stabbed in Hastings rushed to be by his side before the end, but were too late to say goodbye.

A 22-year-old man who died in hospital after being stabbed at a Hastings party house is believed to have become engaged on Friday to his alleged attacker.