Latest from Hastings

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Cards get big workout during March

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Fresh hopes for Opera House

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Six month old baby dies in motel

Staff at a Hastings motel say the mother of a six-month-old boy ran screaming from her room after her son's unexplained death yesterday.

Tables turned on robber

A masked and armed robber left a Hastings service station empty-handed after his demands were refused by the attendant.

Acid spill on manufacturing site

At least one Fire Service crew was remaining overnight at the scene of an acid spill on a manufacturing site in the Whakatu Industrial Park between Napier and Hastings.

Hastings school wins anti-bullying video competition

Teen cyclist critically injured in Hastings crash

Two dead after 600m fall

Two men have died after a car crashed on a rural road and rolled 600m down a bank near Te Hauke, south of Hastings.

Two dead in small plane crash

Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club president Bruce Govenlock says the deaths of his friend and a UK pilot in today's plane crash were a "terrible tragedy''.

Mayor criticises home-detention

Hastings' Mayor has criticized the sentence of a local man who broke his baby daughter's legs and was released from prison after little more than 12 months.