Hawkes Bay's unique landscape and climate is reflected in the exquisite wines produced there, discovers Patricia Greig.

Rebuilt in the 1930s, Art Deco Napier seduces Michelle Coursey.

A mother and her son who were swept out to sea at a Hawkes Bay beach have been discharged from hospital and are back home recovering.

When Ian Waterson saw a mother and her child being swept out to sea he ran outside, jumped onto his 4WD farmbike and drove straight into the ocean.

Diana Balham enjoys culinary masterpieces and vintage tipples in Hawkes Bay.

As hot, dry weather threatens to create a drought, farmers are preparing for the worst.

Distinctive tattoos on a man found dead in an alleyway in central Napier this week could help to identify him.

Hawke's Bay farmer Gary Quinn says he is lucky he wasn't left paralysed after a cattle beast "lashed out" at him, breaking both his legs.

A date has been set for the trial of a former Napier City councillor accused of murdering his Canadian wife.

A remorseful pilot pledged to pay $10k to a passenger so severely wounded 'he wished to die' after their plane slammed nose-first into the ground.

Globs of fat spilled on to the road, into drains and the Ahuriri Estuary after a truck carrying a tankful of fat ruptured a valve, leaking 6000kg to 8000kg of fat.

A Wairoa woman has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a Napier mother of three.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

A motorist drove a car into a policeman at a roadside checkpoint, leaving the officer with injuries to his legs, face and arms.

Central Hawkes Bay's controversial Ruataniwha Dam irrigation scheme received a setback yesterday.

Central Hawkes Bay's controversial Ruataniwha dam irrigation scheme received a setback today with High Court ruling that the board of inquiry that approved the project made errors when evaluating it.

A man who killed a sickness beneficiary with a taiaha has today been sentenced to 17 years jail.

It took just 15 mins for the alarm to be raised when Fiona Wills, 77, went missing just 50m from her house. But despite two days of searches, there's no trace of her.

A Hawke's Bay pilot who illegally carried passengers has admitted causing a catastrophic plane crash - and says his flying days are over.

Sexual predator and former St John officer Christopher King has admitted assaulting two girls, as more evidence of his sinister past is revealed.

A former St John officer convicted of sexual offending has pleaded guilty to more charges.

A Hastings woman has been referred to Child, Youth and Family after leaving her 6-month-old baby on the floor of a Hastings KFC restaurant yesterday.

A principal who formed a sexual relationship with a teacher and threatened her if she told anyone he'd made her pregnant has been found guilty of serious misconduct.

A Muslim man is calling on "souljahs of Allah" to make their way to Hawke's Bay and join him in forming the "Islamic State of Aotearoa".