Two people were killed on the roads in separate incidents during the weekend.

A young Napier man who organised a Facebook party that went out of control at the weekend may be charged by police with holding an unlicensed event.

Cricket World Cup fever is beginning to build on the heels of Saturday's quarter-final game.

Police tasered, pepper-sprayed and set dogs on a 53-year-old man who died in Napier in the early hours of this morning while being arrested.

Napier is New Zealand's most prolific cricket-watching city during the Cricket World Cup, according to figures compiled by Statistics New Zealand.

Pam McGarva was on her way to a quiz night when a car hit hers. Now eight months later, the woman driving the other car has been charged with her manslaughter.

The Black Caps will swap bats and balls for pens this evening as they continue with rest and relaxation before taking on Afghanistan this weekend.

Rebuilt in the 1930s, Art Deco Napier seduces Michelle Coursey.

Distinctive tattoos on a man found dead in an alleyway in central Napier this week could help to identify him.

A woman who was ordered to stay out of Hawke's Bay during a 10-month home-detention sentence has been bunking-down at the home of a prolific criminal near Napier.

The theft of a $14,000 custom-built chiller-freezer unit from a Napier firm's yard was a case of 'they knew what they wanted and knew what they were doing'.

A Wairoa woman has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a Napier mother of three.

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

A computer gamer who bashed and critically injured his baby boy has been sentenced to jail for the act described as "a complete horror story".

Animals scurried for cover as a blaze ripped through scrub near Rotorua Airport -- one of three big blazes to keep firefighters in the North Island busy this weekend.

Flaxmere streaker Rose Kupa says she's knocked off one task on her bucket list, but the All Blacks are not impressed.

All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is expecting a tight test against Argentina in Napier tomorrow, saying his side will have to show patience against an improving team.

A man who indecently abused young boys over nearly a decade has narrowly avoided a sentence of preventive detention.

A Napier woman was dragged from her car and sexually assaulted while on a break near her work in Ahururi last night.

A young Hastings woman has been found not guilty of fatally stabbing her boyfriend.

A judge has told a mother caught driving with seven unrestrained children that she did something "a large number of families would do" thirty years ago.

A woman was killed and a cyclist seriously injured in two serious crashes in the central North Island early this morning.

Ports of Auckland, Napier Port and cold storage specialist Icepak have formed a joint venture to develop a new $20 million inland port and freight hub at Longburn, near Palmerston North.

Police are investigating why two men separately drove themselves to a Napier clinic with serious injuries overnight, one with stab wounds to the head.

She wove a stylish thread through NZ history. Now, the sartorial contributions of trail-blazing politician Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan will go on show.