More than 100 Hawke's Bay young offenders will be given the chance to gain their driver's licences and improve their employment opportunities.

Kathryn Ryan says she asked to stay longer in the maternity unit because she had suffered post-natal depression in the past and had concerns about breastfeeding.

Police are asking the public for help after an eight-tonne horse truck was stolen in Havelock North overnight on Friday.

The Government's big-spend on "social investment" is being treated with scepticism by some of those battling issues such as housing and child poverty.

A PostShop has been closed after a powder scare.

A volunteer teacher killed in a crash earlier this week had already "made her presence felt" - just two months into a year-long stint at Hohepa school.

A Hastings woman has been ordered off the roads for eight months, after confusing a car's brake with the accelerator and running over two young girls earlier this year.

A lawyer has been accused of assaulting and injuring his former girlfriend, champion triathlete Amelia Watkinson.

A moderate 4.2 earthquake has rocked the central North Island early this morning.

A woman allegedly chased and ran over her ex-boyfriend yesterday afternoon, after he refused to give her money.

The completion of a settlement of major Treaty of Waitangi claims is in the balance after a hui was held to resolve issues over its management.

Tributes to "brave" and "inspiring" man who died after suffering a head injury during a half marathon.

English comedian and devoted birdwatcher Bill Oddie is winging his way to Hawke's Bay next week to share tales of his years as a conservationist.

A man claiming to be a doctor and offering medical services has been charged with assaulting someone with a needle.

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.

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.

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.