Hawkes Bay

Dairy farmers are culling cows and moving to once-a-day milking because of feed shortages.

A government inquiry is looking at whether sheep faeces contaminated the town's water supply, poisoning more than 5000 people. Video

The government's inquiry into Havelock North's water contamination is focussed on a pond near some bores. Video

Police are defending their decision to have armed officers evacuate residents on Friday night while hunting a wanted man who remains on the run.

Police are still searching for a man who was the subject of an Armed Offenders Squad callout in Napier last night.

More than 5000 dairy cows are about to be shipped from New Zealand to China by the Saudi businessman involved in the so-called Saudi sheep scandal.

Farmers in Hawke's Bay are selling stock because they don't have enough food or water for them, livestock agent John Kingston says.

The decision not to declare a state of emergency in Havelock North last year aggravated the situation, says the author of an independent report.

State Highway 2 between Norsewood and Waipukurau is still closed after a fatal truck crash overnight, with traffic building up on the sides of the road.

Hastings mayor and Local Government New Zealand president Lawrence Yule has put his name forward to be the National Party candidate for Tukituki.

The Hastings District Council is warning it will have to ban outdoor water use if residents do not conserve water.

A coroner in Hawke's Bay has ruled that a young woman deliberately drove her car into another vehicle in an attempt to commit suicide.

A man went through a plate glass window during a fight at a McDonald's restaurant in Napier last night.

The dog that bit a five-year-old boy in Wairoa last week has this morning been destroyed by the local pound.

A Hastings dairy owner has been punched several times then threatened by his attacker's partner with an axe, police say.

Police want to talk to a man who helped a cyclist after a hit-and-run in Napier.