Ngapuhi leader yesterday admitted lying about whether he had shot five protected wood pigeons.

A whopper joey has been found in Hastings.

Seatbelts are thought to have helped prevent serious injury in a crash which partially blocked a major highway intersection north of Napier today.

Dean of Napier Cathedral, Dr Michael Godfrey, has denied accusations of a long term affair with an underage girl, as he vowed to clear his name.

He's just a metre tall and most of his bones have been fractured by disease. But Samuel Gibson is an inspiring inventor and adventurer.

A man was stabbed with a screwdriver and hit over the head with a table as he tried to chase an intruder out of his Hastings home.

A woman and a man are badly burnt after a gas cylinder exploded in their Hawkes Bay home, blowing out three windows.

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

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.

At Mangarara, they put the planet before money, writes Tim Roxborogh.

The former home of the late broadcaster Sir Paul Holmes failed to sell at tender but there is still buyer interest.

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.

The motorcycle community is shocked and saddened after losing one of its members in a fatal crash involving a tourist driver in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

The cousin of Laura Letts-Beckett has told of witnessing "the most horrific argument with a married couple" during the murder trial of a former NZ councillor.

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.