Joe Cocker aims for radio hits on his latest album Hard Knocks.

The holiday road toll has risen to six after a fatal crash on the Napier-Taupo highway this afternoon.

A chronically ill Hawkes Bay girl has been put on experimental drugs to stop her body rejecting transplanted organs.

Matisse Reid's celebration of her 10th birthday and Christmas Day came to a halt when she was taken back into intensive care.

The mother of a girl, 5, found dead in her bed after an alleged assault was trying to escape violence in her life.

A man has been remanded in custody after he appeared in court charged with assault over the death of a girl, 5, in Napier.

Power has been restored to Napier after a felled tree shortcircuited a cable supplying electricity to more than 21,000 people.

From Napier to New York, Nga Waiata's striking jewellery is making some waves.

9-year-old Matisse Reid - the girl who can't eat - was yesterday in a bad way in a Pittsburgh hospital.

Four men and one woman were admitted to hospital overnight after a suspected mass drink spiking incident at a popular Napier bar, police say.

If you want Christmas Day to really be a holiday, book yourself into a restaurant and let the staff do all the work.