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.

Evidence from a cell phone has been used for the first time to convict a person of possession and making a copy of objectionable material.

At least one Fire Service crew was remaining overnight at the scene of an acid spill on a manufacturing site in the Whakatu Industrial Park between Napier and Hastings.

A 2-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a car in the carpark of a KFC in central Napier this afternoon.

A 55-year-old man, described as a "serial fraudster" has been sentenced for impersonating a lawyer and now holds 184 convictions, including impersonating a pilot.

Bringing up the next generation with community spirit has gained Napier woman Gabby Allen a Pride of NZ nomination.

A man died after what police describe as a "highly modified trike" crashed in Napier yesterday.

A Napier City councillor's son has been jailed for three years and three months for "disfiguring" a woman during an attack at a New Year's Eve party.

Two Hawke's Bay police officers were assaulted during a scuffle outside a Napier bar last night.

Armed Offenders Squad members and Napier police with a dog team were conducting house to house searches for a man who held up a Kiwibank/Postshop outlet in Marewa this morning.

A man who severed his fingers with a skillsaw near Napier last night is having surgery this morning.

A husband and wife have been sentenced to prison for the wilful neglect of a baby who suffered multiple fractures that went untreated.

A jury in the trial of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend has failed to reach a verdict after 10 hours' deliberating.

She's accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend, but says he pulled the knife into himself. A jury is continuing deliberations on whether Juliette Gerbes is guilty of manslaughter.

A 12-year-old boy was subjected to a "savage and prolonged attack" by a grown man who took exception to a comment from the boy.

The number of road deaths over the Christmas-New Year holiday period edged one higher than last year following a motorcyclist death yesterday afternoon.

The Christmas-New Year holiday period road toll has risen to seven following the death of a motorcyclist.