Colin Wiggins says he just went into autopilot yesterday helping to save two people from their crashed and blazing vehicles.

The rapist of a 75-year-old woman has walked into a police station waving an axe and begging to be sent back to jail.

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.

A Hastings teenager jailed for assaulting his mother told police they had made his life hell and he would become the next Jan Molenaar.

When an Auckland couple relocated to a Hawke's Bay bungalow, the move was supposed to be temporary. Five years later, they are only now on the move.

An 80-year-old returned serviceman who sold home-made alcohol from his garage in Hastings was today fined $1200 and placed under community supervision.

Two men accused of packing 14 stolen sheep into a car have been jailed for 10 months.