Mayor criticises home-detention
Hastings' Mayor has criticized the sentence of a local man who broke his baby daughter's legs and was released from prison after little more than 12 months.
Hastings' Mayor has criticized the sentence of a local man who broke his baby daughter's legs and was released from prison after little more than 12 months.
A swastika-tattooed Mongrel Mob associate on the run from police triggered an armed police raid in Hastings yesterday, which shut down several streets.
Police in Hastings are appealing for help after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted after she parted from a friend in a park and continued walking alone.
A man accused of sexually assaulting an 87-year-old Hastings woman in her home has had an interim name suppression order further extended.
A knife-wielding man made off with a bag of cash after holding up a Hastings service station last night.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck south of Hastings in the early hours of this morning.
Several witnesses have reported seeing a man who matches the description of a suspect wanted wanted in relation to the attack and sexual violation of an 87-year-old woman.
Police are hunting for a man who attacked and sexually violated an 87-year-old Hastings woman in her home yesterday.
The driver of a council tractor-mower is 'very shaken up' after he hit and killed a 4-year-old described by his gran as 'full of joy and bounce.'
A 5-year-old boy battling for his life after an alleged hit and run in Flaxmere has taken "a turn for the worse" in Starship children's hospital.
A man who seriously injured his 6-year-old daughter when he crashed his overloaded quad bike while driving drunk avoided prison due to the "appalling experience".
Two people have admitted to selling rock lobster gathered with authorisation for whanau gatherings.
A Hawkes Bay teacher with a conviction for aggravated robbery has pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of sunglasses.
As drought grips the country, the Government is promoting giant dams to irrigate dry farmland. Geoff Cumming investigates whether the biggest of these plans will work for farmers, investors and environmentalists
A 34-year-old Hastings man has died while diving at a remote beach in central Hawke's Bay.
Burning cowpats proved problematic at a large grass fire in Te Hauke, south of Hastings.
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.