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Taradale mother Tracey Gibb is giving up the battle for a permanent streetside memorial to her son killed while cycling to school.

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Tribute to Joshua Bennie gone

An abandoned car found in a forest near Taupo this month is not connected with the disappearance of hitchhiker Mona Blades almost 38 years ago, police say.

News

No Blades link to car in forest

Police have hit back at claims they have not responded to crime around Flaxmere's Swansea retirement village and are calling on the community to help them catch the criminals.

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We need a hand: Police rebuke elderly's claims

Hawke's Bay motorists are bracing for another petrol price hike, with excise tax set to rise by nine cents a litre by July 2015.

News

Pain at the petrol pump

From sleeping to sipping through a straw, here are five things you may not have realised can hurt your looks

Lifestyle

Skincare sins you may not know of

A group of elderly Flaxmere residents have had enough of the "thugs" that rule the streets around their retirement village and neighbourhood, after four cars were broken into last Friday night.

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Elderly group living in fear of crime spree

At fault drivers are being held to account by the New Zealand Transport Agency, with invoices for damage to roads totalling over $1 million last year.

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Crash drivers billed over $100k

Todd Forsyth must have shares in a fuel company to run this much-modified 1974 MGBGT, spotted racing at Pukekohe one recent rainy Saturday.

Motoring

Motorsport: Family fun the classic way

The Scenic - the Corolla of France but a rare bird here is brilliantly designed to fit our family of five and all our luggage in a car no longer than a Mazda 3

Motoring

Car Buyers' Guide: Space needed in a small package

Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.

Lifestyle

Gardening: Chop trees before they're a problem

Havelock North parents Grant and Rowena Adams are sure their son, Seth, would not be alive today if it were not for the quick action of emergency services on a Hastings road last year.

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Thanks go to fireman and other staff who saved son

Ben Morrison remembers "being pissed at a party" and then waking up in the Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit to news two of his closest friends had died.

News

Expo tells tragic story of teen's sorrow after crash

Different codes have adopted different approaches to what levels of "encouragement" will be tolerated. One soccer club in Auckland has sent a letter home to parents inviting them to come to their children's matches but to refrain from any verbal support

Sport

Motivation in tough love sevens star

Police believe a driver's inattention caused her car to leave the road and land on its side in a steep ditch on Lawn Rd, early yesterday.

News

Lucky escape for careless driver

Touareg: Nomadic folk who roam the Sahara Desert with their herds; also, a tasty SUV that's at home on the sand or in Auckland's big wet.

Motoring

Volkswagen Touareg: Desert storm

Hawke's Bay and former Hurricanes rugby star Chris Eaton remains in shock and continues to grieve his wife, following her death in an Easter weekend car crash, but has vowed in an interview with Woman's Day to honour her memory by raising their young daughter the way she would have wanted.

News

Eaton focuses on daughter in wake of death

Sometimes the only way to get a point across is to shock people.

Opinion

Editorial: Shocking our kids worthwhile

No, they may not be sold on the concept of the merger of the two cities but netballers in Hawke's Bay generally feel the amalgamation of Hastings and Napier is working.

Sport

Netball: Merger stacking up

Napier City Council is opposing plans to spend $400,000 of ratepayer money to build new car parks around the regional hospital campus in Hastings.

News

Napier joins opposition to parking grant

Hawke's Bay District Health Board hopes to solve its parking woes via a ratepayer-funded $400,000 grant to build 120 extra car spaces around the Hastings hospital.

News

Ratepayers asked to fund DHB car park

Two Taradale Rd residents returned home to a nasty surprise on Saturday night, after a four-wheel-drive vehicle came off the road, clipped a parked car and smashed through a fence three houses down.

News

Wayward 4WD wrecks parked car

Staff at Hawke's Bay Hospital were shocked to find vandals had sprayed graffiti over some of their cars as they worked a late shift on Saturday night.

News

Vandals tag hospital staff cars

A truck driver's quick reactions and skill behind the wheel avoided a serious collision on the Hawke's Bay Expressway yesterday.

News

Truckie avoids head on smash

Emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious crash involving two cars and a truck on the Hawkes Bay Expressway.

News

Serious crash on Hawkes Bay Expressway

Normal youngsters become aggressive and unpredictable under the influence of products such as K2, say local police.

News

Police fight 'frightening' effects

I've appeared before a judge just the once. I was 19. I'd driven my 1973 Toyota Corolla about Manawatu for a year without warrant, without registration.

Opinion

Morning Story: Time served but no jury service

Three police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck attended a car crash (pictured, right) on Korokipo Rd near Fernhill yesterday morning.

News

Busy morning for road crashes

Police are continuing their search for the driver of a vehicle involved in a hit and run on Sunday, April 28, which left a seven-year-old boy badly injured.

News

Father plea's for driver to confess

A van in collision with a car on a bridge near Taradale, killing two teenagers, will be on display at this year's Hawke's Bay Youth Alcohol Expo.

News

Young drivers get the message

Anchor's light-proof milk bottles may be a world first but at $3.99 for 2 litres they are out of reach for most families.

News

Anchor hopes buyers will see the light

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