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.

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.

Peter Beckett will be in the dock at Canada's highest court this week, when jury selection starts before he stands trial for murder, accused of killing his wife.

Every ski run is an act of raw go-it-alone courage.

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 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".

The police national dive squad will today search for a snorkeler who went missing from a Hawkes Bay beach.

A man being treated for drinking petrol was killed after he jumped from an ambulance and into the path of a truck in the Hawkes Bay, police say.

A Hawke's Bay mechanic says he found two women - one unresponsive, the other trapped and covered in blood - as he rushed to the scene of a serious crash near Hastings yesterday.

One social activity I prefer to avoid at any cost is being frog-marched off to some uppity restaurant to partake of a chef's special degustation menu.

A 13-year-old girl swam to shore and ran 2km to raise the alarm, arriving "cold and wet" on a woman's doorstep, after a deadly boating accident.