An elderly bus driver was jailed today after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting girls on his bus.

Flaxmere streaker Rose Kupa says she's knocked off one task on her bucket list, but the All Blacks are not impressed.

New Zealand's best produce is world class and a first-rate reason to travel, writes Nadia Lim.

Cycling adventures show off the country's most exhilarating views, discovers Ellie Mitchell.

A young Hastings woman has been found not guilty of fatally stabbing her boyfriend.

A judge has told a mother caught driving with seven unrestrained children that she did something "a large number of families would do" thirty years ago.

About 100 riders from the Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club will converge on Napier today to remember a soldier killed in Afghanistan.

A young man has died after his car hit a power pole in Hawke's Bay overnight.

A Napier family is reeling after a man allegedly entered their home and attacked the father with a hammer.

Police are investigating why two men separately drove themselves to a Napier clinic with serious injuries overnight, one with stab wounds to the head.

A Hastings woman who died following an overdose made two calls to emergency helplines that went unanswered before her death.

A Hastings man has pleaded guilty to a brutal sexual assault on an 87-year-old woman in her home last year and another sexual attack on the same day.

A Hawke’s Bay builder who accidently shot himself in the chest with a nail gun pulled out the nail himself and walked onto a rescue helicopter, but later died.

Police are looking for a man who assaulted a 16-year-old girl in her Napier home last night.

A Hawke's Bay man who shot himself in the chest with a nail gun yesterday has died.

A man charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a pet dog worries he will face undue "pressure" and scrutiny from his small seaside community, his lawyer says.

A 55-year-old man, described as a "serial fraudster" has been sentenced for impersonating a lawyer and now holds 184 convictions, including impersonating a pilot.

The long-haired schoolboy who was suspended for refusing to cut his locks has won a High Court battle to keep his long hair.

A $275 million dam and irrigation scheme proposed for Central Hawke’s Bay is a step closer after Hawke’s Bay Regional Council voted to invest up to $80 million in the scheme.

Bringing up the next generation with community spirit has gained Napier woman Gabby Allen a Pride of NZ nomination.

No longer a sleepy village, this Hawke's Bay locale is now a sought-after destination.

"Maybe now he's learned not to play with goats," said the flatmate of a man who was chasing wild goats, lost his footing and fell 40m down a cliff.