New DNA evidence has allowed police to charge a man for the alleged abduction and rape of a Hawkes Bay woman nearly two decades ago.

Pam McGarva was on her way to a quiz night when a car hit hers. Now eight months later, the woman driving the other car has been charged with her manslaughter.

Hawkes Bay Police were called when a 'very stubborn' miniature horse decided to go on a trip to the supermarket in the middle of the night.

HR manager Louise Alexandra, who was criticised for bullying an employee in offensive cake case, no longer working for NZCU after disappearing from company website.

HR manager who "bullied" employee into logging onto Facebook and finding a controversial cake photo still employed by NZCU but nowhere to be found on its website.

Doug Bailey is a co-founder of Hawkes Bay-based Edgebrook Cider.

It's every firefighting parent's worst nightmare: finding your child critically injured in a car accident.

Hastings District Council finally pleads guilty over the death of a four-year-old boy who was run over by a tractor mower.

A former Hawkes Bay man who admitted bashing his wife to death has left NZ, travelling on an Indian passport he got while under NZ government care.

A man who went fly-fishing and disappeared was rescued after activating a personal locator beacon.

Windows exploded as a Dannevirke woman and three young children ran from a blazing home with flames licking at their backs.

Name suppression has been lifted for a daughter charged with the manslaughter of her elderly Napier mother.

A Havelock North principal was eating a sandwich one minute and in the pool the next after his shorts "spontaneously ignited".

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.

Two people were lucky to make it out of "solid" waves at Waimarama Beach in Hawke's Bay on Saturday.

A motorcyclist has died this afternoon after colliding with another vehicle in Hawke's 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.