'First drop your pie' was the lesson for one of the Hastings crew who cycled into Parliament to prove their weight loss programme was working.

Injured motorcyclists were airlifted to hospitals in two separate incidents in the lower North Island today.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

The trial has begun of a freezing worker accused of shooting dead his brother and driving around the lower North Island with him in the back seat, avoiding police during a two-day manhunt.

Wairoa police will meet with the town's mayor and the local MP next week after the second gang-related shooting in five days.

Police and the armed offenders squad will be out in force in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa tonight.

Cooking demonstrations, fish filleting and mussel opening competitions are part of the fun at the Tauranga Moana Seafood Festival.

In the thick of competition season, an amateur chef seeks expert advice on making reality-TV magic.

Joelle Thomson offers us a toast to crisp sparkling rieslings.

Injured father reveals his son suffered an electric shock while fighting to save him from electrocution.

Police have praised the actions of a group of "heroes" who risked their lives to pull three people from the wreckage of a crash in Hawke's Bay.

A Hastings man has been arrested after a 55-year-old man was seriously injured in an alleged assault yesterday.

A 32-year-old woman is in intensive care after being stabbed multiple times with a knife in Hastings this morning, police say.