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  •   Home > News > National >  Subscribe to NZCity's Lower North Island articles  Lower North Island
    Hawke's Bay is recording its deadliest annual road toll in recent years
     31 December 2025
    Hawke's Bay is recording its deadliest annual road toll in recent years
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    State Highway 2 north of Eskdale and Napier has reopened overnight after a fatal crash yesterday morning
    31 Dec: State Highway 2 north of Eskdale and Napier has reopened overnight after a fatal crash yesterday morning... more
    Wellington allrounder Logan van Beek is raring to get back into action in the Firebirds' opening T20 Super Smash match of the season against the Central Stags in Palmerston North this afternoon
    27 Dec: Wellington allrounder Logan van Beek is raring to get back into action in the Firebirds' opening T20 Super Smash match of the season against the Central Stags in Palmerston North this afternoon... more
    Police are responding to a serious water incident north of Napier
    22 Dec: Police are responding to a serious water incident north of Napier... more
    Police are hoping an offender profile will help the public identify the person responsible for a death in Hawke's Bay's Hastings
    18 Dec: Police are hoping an offender profile will help the public identify the person responsible for a death in Hawke's Bay's Hastings... more
    A person has died in a single vehicle crash south of Flemington in the Hawke's Bay last night
    18 Dec: A person has died in a single vehicle crash south of Flemington in the Hawke's Bay last night... more
    A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to five years and four months jail for threatening a mass stabbing attack, distributing objectionable material and indecent communications
    17 Dec: A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to five years and four months jail for threatening a mass stabbing attack, distributing objectionable material and indecent communications... more
    Police have named the two people found dead after a house fire in Manawatu last week
    15 Dec: Police have named the two people found dead after a house fire in Manawatu last week... more
    Crews on the ground and in the air are fighting to put out a vegetation fire in rural Whanganui
    14 Dec: Crews on the ground and in the air are fighting to put out a vegetation fire in rural Whanganui... more
    Hawkes Bay Police are urging the public to keep their homes and vehicles secure - with a spike in the number of diesel thefts in rural Hastings
    14 Dec: Hawkes Bay Police are urging the public to keep their homes and vehicles secure - with a spike in the number of diesel thefts in rural Hastings... more

     Most Popular Recent Lower North Island News
     09 Dec: Fire crews have extinguished a blaze that ripped through home in Manawatu's Foxton Beach this morning, but two people remain unaccounted for ++++++++++
     11 Dec: A Police watchdog report finds officers in Hawke's Bay unlawfully entered a house this year and used unjustified force to arrest a man breaching bail +++++++++
     14 Dec: Crews on the ground and in the air are fighting to put out a vegetation fire in rural Whanganui +++++++++
     07 Dec: Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel has just surpassed 400 first-class wickets while playing for the Central Stags in their four-day Plunket Shield match against Canterbury in Napier ++++++++
     10 Dec: Police are maintaining an increased presence in Horowhenua's Foxton Beach after the deaths of two people in a house fire ++++++++
     07 Dec: Kiwi running prodigy Sam Ruthe has comfortably won the national schools 1500 metres title in Hastings ++++++++
     18 Dec: Police are hoping an offender profile will help the public identify the person responsible for a death in Hawke's Bay's Hastings +++++++

     Lower North Island NewsLinks
      30 Dec: Palmerston north cans new year’s event as 120km/h gales batter lower ni, rain warning for south (NZ Herald)
      30 Dec: Palmerson north cans new year’s event as 120km/h gales batter lower ni, rain warning for south (NZ Herald)
      29 Dec: Kiwi kai stops: giant eclairs, cream horns and meatballs worth making a pitstop for (Stuff.co.nz)
      26 Dec: 'strong' quake shakes lower north island (RadioNZ)
      26 Dec: ‘bit of a rattle’: magnitude 4.7 earthquake shakes lower north island awake on boxing day (Stuff.co.nz)
      4 Dec: Magnitude 4.8 earthquake shakes lower north island (Stuff.co.nz)
      23 Oct: The windiest winds: how today stacks up against the records (Stuff.co.nz)
      22 Oct: Helicopters halted as gales create problems for firefighters in lower north island (RadioNZ)
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