Funny man Greg Proops is heading our way soon to "poison everyone with my opinions". He talks to Barney McDonald about the importance of laughter in bad times.

Napier's Ahuriri district offers history with its coffee, says Matthew Wright.

Minister of Education Anne Tolley has reminded schools that they need to keep students safe.

Prison authorities have caught out a 14-year-old boy who tried to take cannabis hidden in his shoe into Hawke's Bay Regional Prison.

An Air Nelson pilot sacked for sleeping with a young flight attendant and drinking before a flight has won his job back.

A pilot has won his job back after being sacked for a late-night drinking spree during which he had sex with a 19-year-old flight attendant.

Senior police have visited the final resting place of a teenager shot dead in an armed stand-off with their officers earlier this week.

Police are still appealing for sightings of a van seen in the area early on the morning when Lachan Kelly-Tumarae was fatally shot by police.

A post-mortem examination has found the 19-year-old shot by police in rural Hawkes Bay yesterday died from a gunshot wound.

A former Armed Offenders Squad chief says police only had a split second to act when shooting victim Lachan Kelly-Tumarae allegedly aimed a weapon at them, and had to aim at his body "mass", rather than a limb.

A man shot dead in an armed stand-off with police was training with the army and had moved to Napier to escape the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake.

Tropical Cyclone Bune is making its way down to New Zealand and is expected to pass to the east of the country from Wednesday.

Police have named the man shot dead by a police officer in rural Hawkes Bay early this morning and say it appears the 19-year-old fired a shotgun first before being shot by an officer with a Glock pistol in Fernhill, about 15km from Napier.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Police say it is unclear whether an armed man shot dead by an officer in rural Hawke's Bay early this morning had fired his weapon. The man was shot by an officer with a standard issue Glock pistol and died around 3am in hospital this

Witnesses have described desperate attempts to save the motorists involved in a fiery crash in Napier yesterday morning.

A truck carrying eggs has crashed into a ditch on State Highway two at Waipukurau.