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.

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.

Two teenagers walking through suburban Onekawa in Napier on Saturday afternoon were told they would be shot if they did not hand over their cellphones.

Napier's central Intercity bus terminal is being described as shambolic, chaotic, an embarrassment, a nightmare and a disgrace.

Three Napier brothers ran through a shower of hot, falling ash to wake neighbours and rescue an elderly woman from her burning home.

An independent review has found flaws in KiwiRail's decision to close the Gisborne to Napier line and suggests the tonnage needed to keep the route viable can be achieved.

A second sea lion has died in just over a month at Napier's Marineland when 22-year-old Makea failed to recover from a general anaesthetic on Friday.

An independent report aimed at proving the economic viability of the Gisborne to Napier railway line is expected to be released to the public this week.

A 20-year-old Hastings man was stabbed nine times in an early-morning attack at a Napier house on Sunday which police say was domestic related.

A man who bit the face of his partner and gagged her with her own scarf during a vicious beating has been sentenced to two years and five months' imprisonment.