A woman has been injured and a dog has died after two separate crashes tonight.

Ratepayers in Hawkes Bay have every reason to expect accountability and transparency from a big irrigation project in the region.

Owners of a Hastings gym are inviting the person who hurled a brick through their window yesterday morning to come back, join up and turn their life around.

Lissie Rathbone was the last known registered owner of a swampy strip of land outside Waipawa,

A man filled a bucket with boiling water during a smoko-break and poured it over the back of a colleague's head, neck and shoulders near Hastings.

A man is seriously ill in hospital after he fell from a wharf, hit a boat and "bounced" into the water.

Heidi Warren has patrolled Hawkes Bay's Waimarama Beach for four years but only saved her first life outside a Napier pub at 3 o'clock yesterday morning.

The Hawke's Bay angler who failed a lie detector test over his monster marlin catch will finally get his prize.

Mother arrived home to find her daughter vomiting green foam.

GeoNet said the four tremors were all close to Porangahau at a depth of 20 kilometres or less.

Hoons doing burnouts in a Hawkes Bay cemetery have knocked over two headstones, and left tyre marks on the grass.

Emergency services responded to the incident at 10am yesterday on a farm inland from Porangahau, Hawkes Bay.

Shelly and Mark Witchalls have dragged this once-derelict house back to the 1930s and paired 1930s aesthetics with 21st century conveniences.

A woman is in a serious condition and considered lucky to be alive after spending up to four hours trapped beneath her crashed Royal Mail van in remote hills west of Hastings yesterday.

Former Napier City Councillor Peter Beckett is charged with first-degree murder in the 2010 drowning death of his wife in a Canadian lake.

Police are seeking witnesses to a crash on Whirinaki Rd early today where an elderly man died.

Janetta Mackay checks into a self-contained bungalow that calls itself a hotel.

A music student is open to one day meeting her abuser to help her deal with the "life sentence" the former Havelock North School teacher imposed on her.

A young man who died in a crash between a car and a ute over the holidays had a "smile to define the word cheesy", and "endless love and kindness for anyone who needed it".

Ambulance staff attended an incident in Hawkes Bay this morning after a person was hit by a mobility scooter.

The NZ host family of a 16-year-old Korean student who died while swimming on Saturday wept in the arms of the boy's relatives at the scene yesterday.

A Hawke's Bay medical practitioner is still practising in spite of being accused of stupefying young men and indecently assaulting them.

Man charged with murdering Napier woman Victoria Foster identified as her former partner.

An Air Force helicopter will be used to try to retrieve a car that crashed into the Mohaka River on Saturday afternoon, killing three Mongrel Mob members.