A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

The trial has begun of a freezing worker accused of shooting dead his brother and driving around the lower North Island with him in the back seat, avoiding police during a two-day manhunt.

Wairoa police will meet with the town's mayor and the local MP next week after the second gang-related shooting in five days.

Cooking demonstrations, fish filleting and mussel opening competitions are part of the fun at the Tauranga Moana Seafood Festival.

UK celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay says he will make a donation after bowing out of two NZ charity dinners for a sick girl.

Joelle Thomson offers us a toast to crisp sparkling rieslings.

Injured father reveals his son suffered an electric shock while fighting to save him from electrocution.

Police have praised the actions of a group of "heroes" who risked their lives to pull three people from the wreckage of a crash in Hawke's Bay.

A Hastings man has been arrested after a 55-year-old man was seriously injured in an alleged assault yesterday.

A 32-year-old woman is in intensive care after being stabbed multiple times with a knife in Hastings this morning, police say.

Hundreds of people have gathered at the Napier municipal theatre for a memorial service for Th' Dudes band member Ian Morris.