A Recognised Seasonal Employer worker has been confirmed with measles in Hawke’s Bay – the first confirmed seasonal worker case in the region. Hawke’s Bay District Health Board Medical Officer of Health Dr Rachel Eyre says the employer......

Fire crews are keeping a close watch on the site of two blazes in Hawke's Bay and Otago. Emergency services received a call at 8.40pm yesterday night about large fire at a pine plantation in Porangahau. A Fire and Emergency spokesperson says the......

Hawke's Bay's top police officer says members of the criminal fraternity are coming forward with information after police were targeted in shooting incidents in Wairoa. Acting Eastern District Commander Iain Chapman has pleaded with Wairoa......

Police can now release the name of the man who died following a single-truck crash on Kereru Road near Hastings on 25 September. He was 69-year-old Peter Thomas Craig of Napier, says a police spokesperson. "Police extend our sympathies to his......

A strong magnitude 5.4 earthquake has hit the Hawke's Bay, GeoNet says. GeoNet said the quake occured in Hawke's Bay to the west of Mahia Peninsula, at a depth of 26km. It said it had received more than 3000 'felt' reports, largely......

Napier City Councillors say they are open to a settlement, after the group that called for a review of the $41 million Napier pool upgrade pulled their offer yesterday. The Friends of Onekawa Aquatic Centre Society is going ahead with its judicial......

An aggressive and fast-moving gastro bug has struck a Hawke's Bay primary school, forcing more than a hundred students to stay away from classes. Greenmeadows School principal Mark Johnson said he was told at the weekend a number of children in......

Police can confirm a 22-year-old woman has died following a serious assault in Hastings last Thursday, and a homicide investigation has been launched. The woman died Sunday afternoon, and a number of people are assisting Police with their enquiries. As......

Police received a report around 8am from a member of the public that a body had been found in the Clifton Beach area near Hastings. Police are currently at the scene and are working to recover and identify the body, says a police spokesperson. "Further......

The search for a missing man who failed to return from a fishing trip on Saturday has continued this morning. The man, aged 75, had been fly fishing in the Tukituki River at Haumoana but failed to return to his accommodation by dark. The man’s......