The fossil of a squid-like creature wiped out with the dinosaurs has been discovered in a Hawkes Bay streambed. What makes it such a 'significant' find for NZ?

David Taite still does not accept he should have been shot by police officers in an incident near the Central Hawke's Bay township of Otane in October 2011.

Police were justified in shooting a Hawkes Bay man left paralysed as a result, an independent report has found.

A man whose body was found buried in a shallow grave months after he disappeared was bashed with a taiaha, a court has been told.

A pensioner who lay dead in a car next to his trapped and injured wife for 15 hours has been named as Alan Henry Skittrup, 94, of Taradale.

An elderly woman lay trapped and badly injured overnight next to her dead husband after their car left a driveway and rolled up to 30 metres down a steep bank.

Three people will appear in Gisborne District Court over an armed hold-up of a Mexican tourist in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

One man has died after his car left a rural road near Hastings and ended up in a stream.

Any talk about the retirement age being upped to 68 or 70 would result in a sort of "so what?" response from Trevor Page of Napier.

A quick-thinking Hastings resident scuttled the mischievous plans of an alleged burglar in Parkvale yesterday - by sitting on the offender until police arrived.

A Hawke's Bay police officer accused of indecently assaulting five teenagers told two girls they were drunk and "no one would believe them", a court has heard.

A spectacular showcase of flavours from Hawkes Bay launches the winter, writes Catherine Smith.

A loving 28-year-old father who fell from his motorcycle in Waipukurau nine days ago has passed away in Wellington Hospital.

One man remained in a critical condition at Hawke's Bay Hospital this morning after collision between a van and a logging truck in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

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

Protesters egged Prime Minister John Key's ministerial BMW as it collected him from a state housing development in Napier this afternoon.

A Hawke's Bay volleyball coach has been sentenced to home detention after she admitted engaging in a "damaging psychological relationship" with a young female student.

An 8-year-old girl is in Hawke's Bay Hospital after being shot in the stomach with an air rifle by another child.

Health officials are concerned clusters of the harmful H1N1 virus, responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic, are appearing unseasonably early.

Engineers have identified further structural problems within the Hawke's Bay Opera House precinct.

A Hawke's Bay winegrower is picking this year's Chardonnay crop to be the region's best ever vintage.

A Civil Aviation Authority inquiry is under way this afternoon into a fatal helicopter crash in a forestry block near Gisborne this morning in which a 53-year-old local man died.

A man in an arranged marriage has been found guilty of using his wife as a sex slave, during which he raped, beat and threatened to kill her.