About 20 Hawkes Bay residents fought an out of control fire with spades and chilly bins of water near Mahia Beach yesterday.

Brazen thieves who pounced while a family were sleeping made off with priceless camera footage of a young Hawkes Bay woman's last years of life.

Health warnings over Lake Tutira have been extended following the detection of higher levels of cyanobacteria by the Hawke's Bay District Health Board.

A live-in caregiver who stole $35,510 from her widowed Napier employer accepted a $2500 severance payment and dinner with her victim's family when she resigned in April

Police were called to a Hawkes' Bay funeral home after grieving relatives disagreed over where the body of the man who died after a fight at the weekend would be taken.

A Hawke's Bay prison officer was hospitalised yesterday after being attacked by an inmate, and the incident is now being investigated by police.

The simple act of leaving a lamp on at home sparked a blaze which totally destroyed a Waipukurau home at the weekend.

A teenager accused of dousing another boy with petrol then setting him alight has been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

A teenager accused of dousing a younger boy in petrol and setting him alight said he thought the flames would be easily extinguished.

Outraged Hawke's Bay residents are concerned after a recidivist paedophile was allowed to live in a Clive rental property without the community being informed.

Diana Plater follows the Classic New Zealand Wine Trail from Hawke's Bay to Marlborough.

White supremacy flyers have again been distributed to Hawke's Bay letterboxes, provoking another outcry from residents who describe them as nothing but rubbish.