A public meeting will be held in Napier tonight over concerns toxic fumes from a paper processing plant are poisoning workers and neighbours.

After our tour of Napier's art deco riches, we fancied ourselves as experts of the features that marked this oh-so-elegant aesthetic.

A boating trip has ended in tragedy after a man drowned when the alloy pontoon boat he was on flipped in the water north of Napier.

Time travel is difficult-but not impossible: witness the nostalgia-seeking horde that descends on Napier for the Art Deco Weekend each February.

Police have cordoned off areas adjacent to Napier's Bluff Hill after a woman fell and was stuck in trees near the summit.

Scenic Hotel Te Pania Napier has rolled out the welcome mat to guests and their dogs

Firefighters are working to remove a person trapped in a car after it crashed into a house in Napier this evening.

A jury has found a mother of 10 guilty on eight counts of assaulting her children, but not guilty of another four.

A Napier man has been sentenced after admitting to give charges of trading in endangered species.

WATCH: Video of a man being knocked down by a car in Napier CBD has gone viral.

Children taken away after police raid house suspected of being a gang lab.

Napier residents jumped at the opportunity of a free feed yesterday after hundreds of dead fish spewed into the marina when a fisherman lost his day's catch.

A Napier woman is on trial for manslaughter after being accused of trying to commit suicide by deliberately causing a fatal crash.

The young mother found dead in her Napier home has been described by friends as the strongest, kindest and most beautiful person they had ever met.

A woman died during what police described as a "serious armed incident" in Napier last tonight.

The mother of a boy who suffered head injuries at a bouncy castle fun park has found the 'hero' who cradled her son while he suffered seizures.

In over-reacting to a classroom speech, the school surrendered the high ground and provided ammunition for those eager to support the 15-year-old's claims.

An overnight scene guard has been stationed at a vacant house in Napier that went up in flames last night.

The condition of the 9-year-old schoolboy injured as a result of jumping out of a window has improved from critical to serious.

The 9-year-old boy injured in a mysterious incident at Taradale Primary School was reportedly trying to escape from a toilet.

Unusually large waves battered the coast of Napier forcing cyclists to slosh through the water.

A scene examination at a Napier school where a young boy was seriously injured has been completed - but police are still not revealing the cause of the incident.

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.