Outraged - was the first thing to come to my mind when I heard the story of an 83-year-old woman being assaulted on our streets.

For those of us concerned about democracy, the fact the Grey Party won the election should dominate any review.

APN New Zealand, the company that owns Hawke's Bay Today has changed its name and from this week will be known as New Zealand Media and Entertainment, or NZME.

The three general seats in Hawke's Bay are marginal seats that swung to National in 2005. Two of them were held and one swung back

Greg Taipari writes: I'm looking forward to the weekend with three big events happening in the Bay. Obviously there is the election.

If you were in Napier CBD yesterday you probably would have been affected in some way by the bomb scare that saw the Napier Public Library and council buildings cordoned off for two hours.

At last, a decent rugby test match at the Cake Tin last Saturday night that allows the prudent to get a handle on the jandal, as it were.

Bruce Bisset: Sadly this election is more likely to be lost than won by anyone, simply because of the non-voters.

From what I've seen, heroes are usually wallflowers and that's why the word "reluctant" is typically inserted before "hero", writes Mark Story.

This morning I woke up and suddenly realised that I have spent more than half of my life trying to save Marineland's animals.