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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Police are looking for a blue car with a large dent in its bonnet that is believed to be linked to a crash which killed three Mongrel Mob members yesterday.

Five-year-old was asleep in her bed when police found body of her mother.

Parents of the boy who died after he inadvertently hanged himself while trying to escape a school toilet cubicle are still awaiting answers.

More than 20 hectares of conservation land will be swallowed up by the controversial Ruataniwha dam project, but DoC says a land-swap deal will mean a net gain for conservation.

Murray Anthony Reid, 75, died after he was struck by a light truck at the intersection of SH2b and Meeanee Quay about 5pm yesterday.

A tourist staying in Hawkes Bay has been killed after he was hit by a truck at a notorious intersection in Napier last night.

Police in Flaxmere pulled over a pink golf cart yesterday after noticing two males cruising in the unregistered and unwarranted vehicle.