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.

A major spike in thefts from cars in Napier, especially in the central city area, has led to a "take everything out" warning to owners from police.

A person has been found dead after falling from a fishing vessel off the coast of Napier.

There's a lot more to this lovely area than just art deco buildings, writes Janet McAllister.

An elderly Auckland couple found dead in their Napier motel room were less than a week into a much-anticipated month's trip around the country.

Cabinet Minister and Napier MP Chris Tremain has confirmed that he will stand down from Parliament next year.

A NZ man who narrowly survived a massacre at a Kenyan mall is undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel, while another Kiwi has described hiding in a box to avoid attackers.

A Hastings man was shot in the back during the weekend's mall massacre in Kenya, just days before he was due back in New Zealand.

A man wanted in connection to a stabbing at the Napier court house today has been arrested and is being interviewed by police.

The bomb squad has been searching a Napier house this morning after a six hour stand-off with a man which forced the evacuation of two streets.

A teenager accused of smashing the windscreen of a police car parked outside Napier District Court on Monday, later allegedly threatened to 'sort out' a judge if sent to jail, a court has been told.

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.

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 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.

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.