The driver of an overloaded quad bike who crashed, seriously injuring his 6-year-old daughter, has avoided a prison sentence to help prevent his daughter suffering any further trauma.

Police have revealed that a wild chase during which a man careered through a gate and an orchard, happened after he kidnapped a woman from outside a police station.

Internal Affairs Minister and Napier MP Chris Tremain has requested a report into how a British killer managed to obtain a New Zealand passport issued in the name of a severely brain-damaged Hastings man.

Napier property owners given a year to get earthquake risk assessments on their buildings are likely to have the deadline extended another two years because there aren't enough structural engineers to do the work.

A 15-year-old was stabbed after a party got out of control in a Napier suburb at the weekend.

A Napier man has been convicted after sending an email threatening to take an ACC branch "hostage".

A Canadian man who was kicked numerous times in the head while trying to stop an assault in Napier is surprised almost no one else tried to stop the thuggery.

A man's throat was cut in an accident at a glazing company in Napier yesterday.

A wheelchair-bound man killed when fire gutted his flat in Napier early yesterday would have had no chance of escaping the ferocity of the blaze, witnesses say.

Police remain at the scene of a fire which killed a man in a unit for mentally and physically disabled residents on the outskirts of Napier today.

A wheelchair-bound man has died in a house fire in a two-bedroom flat in Napier early this morning.

Geoff Braybrooke, former long-serving Labour MP for Napier, has died.

Members of the public and police created a human chain at a Napier beach to haul ashore a boy who was washed out in heavy surf today.

A woman who complained about the public tributes left for a boy killed when hit by a vehicle two years ago says they should be removed because she does not like having to see them every day.

The family of a boy killed when hit by a vehicle on Guppy Rd are devastated that Napier City Council is considering removing roadside tributes to him after receiving a complaint from a nearby resident.

Napier City Council is disappointed vandals have cut down some of the city's iconic Norfolk pine trees.

Barry Gibb says he's had a lot of fun since arriving in Napier last night, but admits his Mission show on Saturday night will pay tribute to his late Bee Gee brothers.

A 35-year-old Napier woman has been remanded in custody on assault charges after an alleged domestic assault in Napier left a 45-year-old man dead from stab wounds.

Two men were taken to hospital after the car they were travelling in smashed head-on into a tree in Napier.

A man who kept diaries of sexual offences against boys and later admitted them in a Napier court yesterday became possibly the oldest person sent to jail in New Zealand.

A Hawke's Bay woman with terminal cancer was among those vying for a shot at the big time at X Factor auditions in Napier.