Social workers failed to listen to a Hastings preschooler, who was left permanently brain-damaged after repeated assaults by his parents, a review has found. Read...

The local Labour MP and mayor in Hastings have expressed strong concerns to the government over the location of a new kind of remand facility proposed by iwi and police. Read...

Project Art Works, based in Hastings, provides a creative space for children and their families. Read...

A Hastings bar owner says he thought a shotgun blast fired at his premises was a firework being let off.There have now been three shootings across Napier and Hastings in seven weeks including in Greenmeadows (September 26), Taradale... Read...

As food prices continue to climb, more people than ever are visiting Hastings` food rescue organisation - Nourished for Nil.Last month, the organisation had its biggest night ever, with 371 people coming to collect food.Nikki... Read...

Patrons at a Hastings bar narrowly avoided being shot, when a gun was fired into the entrance way. Read...

Police evacuated a popular Hastings bar overnight after a report of a shooting nearby.A witness told Hawke`s Bay Today police descended on Bar 2013 in the early hours of Sunday and cleared patrons out due to a report of a shooting.Nine... Read...

A radiologist under `tremendous pressure` in a short-staffed department at Hawke`s Bay Hospital missed a lesion on a woman`s lung in a CT scan, which was later diagnosed as cancer. The doctor says he was `heartbroken` to have been... Read...

A reclusive amateur gun-maker who liked to tinker in his shed amassed a small arsenal of home-made and improvised weapons including several pistols, a taser, and a firearm made out of a torch. Read...

A reclusive amateur gun-maker who liked to tinker in his shed amassed a small arsenal of home-made and improvised weapons including several pistols, a taser, and a firearm made out of a torch.When police raided his property near... Read...