Fishy tale as inquisitive cop catches out alleged burglar with missing fishing gear.

Severe winds, strong rain and the first dusting of snow on Mt Ruapehu are heralding cooler conditions.

The completion of a settlement of major Treaty of Waitangi claims is in the balance after a hui was held to resolve issues over its management.

Liberal Anglican priest Dr Helen Jacobi says she is ashamed of her Church after it postponed "blessings" for gay marriages for at least two years.

Dean of Napier Cathedral, Dr Michael Godfrey, has denied accusations of a long term affair with an underage girl, as he vowed to clear his name.

A rider of a scooter was trapped under a car in Napier after colliding with a car.

A teenager will stand side-by-side with an elderly veteran to be the faces of an Anzac memorial service this morning.

The man who raped and murdered the 6-year-old has been denied parole because his risk of further sexual offending is too high.

Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.

The forestry worker killed in northern Hawke's Bay yesterday has been named.

Family and friends are rallying around a Napier mum who is recovering from a double mastectomy.

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.

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 woman has set about bringing Christmas cheer to a family who have been burgled five times in as many months.

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.