After a weekend in Hawkes Bay, Penny Lewis wonders why she didn't go earlier.

A passenger travelling 180km/h in a car put her feet against the dash as she fought to protect herself and a kidnapped 15-month-old baby.

A gang member who stabbed a man in the foyer of the Napier Court house earlier this year has been sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment.

The deaths of two teenage Flaxmere College students has prompted support from the Ministry of Education, after both girls died within a week of each other.

Five farmers killed in quad bike accidents all had trailers or spray units fitted to their bikes, and two had been using cannabis, a coroner has found.

A woman has been arrested after two French tourists were pistol-whipped in an attack in Napier last night.

A flock of marvellous distractions await you at The Farm, writes Diana Balham.

The driver of a council tractor-mower is 'very shaken up' after he hit and killed a 4-year-old described by his gran as 'full of joy and bounce.'

New Zealand has halted all apple exports to China for the rest of the season after rot was found in several batches at the Chinese border.

One person had died and another is injured following a road crash in central Hawke's Bay.

A man suffered suspected chest and neck injuries when his quad bike rolled over in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

A Hawke's Bay police officer resigned from the force after an incident in which a man stormed a local station and threatened the officer with an imitation firearm.

The man accused of a hit and run in Hawkes Bay that left a 5-year-old boy in a critical condition last week has failed to appear in court this morning.

A 5-year-old boy battling for his life after an alleged hit and run in Flaxmere has taken "a turn for the worse" in Starship children's hospital.

"He was just lying on the ground screaming." A five-year-old's condition after a suspected hit and run is now described as "critical".