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A woman has been charged with threats of harm to people or property - after schools and Hastings hospital went into lockdown last Wednesday

30 July 2025

A woman has been charged with threats of harm to people or property - after schools and Hastings hospital went into lockdown last Wednesday

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A lockdown's lifted at Hawke's Bay Hospital - with reports of a man seen in handcuffs
	23 Jul 2025: A lockdown's lifted at Hawke's Bay Hospital - with reports of a man seen in handcuffs... more

Hawke's Bay Hospital has locked down - with armed police surrounding the building
	23 Jul 2025: Hawke's Bay Hospital has locked down - with armed police surrounding the building... more

More than 60 calves have been stolen from a roadside paddock on State Highway 2 near Dannevirke in Manawatu
	23 Jul 2025: More than 60 calves have been stolen from a roadside paddock on State Highway 2 near Dannevirke in Manawatu... more

A motorcyclist's died in a crash with a car on State Highway 1 at Manakau, between Otaki and Levin - in the lower North Island
	22 Jul 2025: A motorcyclist's died in a crash with a car on State Highway 1 at Manakau, between Otaki and Levin - in the lower North Island... more

A Hastings woman's been sentenced to more than four years in prison, for hitting and killing a girl cycling to a dairy in January
	18 Jul 2025: A Hastings woman's been sentenced to more than four years in prison, for hitting and killing a girl cycling to a dairy in January... more

Police are investigating after a cannabis cake was taken to a shared lunch at Hawke's Bay Hospital
	15 Jul 2025: Police are investigating after a cannabis cake was taken to a shared lunch at Hawke's Bay Hospital... more

One person has died in a crash south of Palmerston North
	15 Jul 2025: One person has died in a crash south of Palmerston North... more

State Highway 56 in Manawatu-Whanganui is closed at Tiakitahuna - after a crash at about 7:30 this evening
	14 Jul 2025: State Highway 56 in Manawatu-Whanganui is closed at Tiakitahuna - after a crash at about 7:30 this evening... more

Napier's 'Design Spun', spinning mill is closing, as well as its dye house - with 26 jobs going
	10 Jul 2025: Napier's 'Design Spun', spinning mill is closing, as well as its dye house - with 26 jobs going... more

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11 Feb: Devastation in Hawke's Bay's Wairoa over a fatal school bus crash yesterday, that killed one and critically injured two others +++++++++++++++++

09 Feb: Police are treating the discovery of a 64-year-old woman's body at a worksite on Taihape Road 0 in Omahu - near Hastings last week, as a homicide +++++++++++++

04 Feb: Police are urging anyone who may have witnessed a fatal assault outside a Napier nightclub, to come forward +++++++++++

03 Feb: Police have launched an investigation after a body was found at a work site in Omahu near Hastings ++++++++++

27 Jan: Thousands of people have reported feeling a magnitude 4.5 earthquake near the capital this afternoon ++++++++++

10 Feb: One person is being flown to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition - after a house fire on a hillside between Eskdale and Bay View in Hawke's Bay ++++++++++

15 Feb: Residents due to be hit by heavy rain and severe gales are being warned to act now ++++++++++

Lower North Island NewsLinks

20 Feb: Confusion over who is meant to deal with ongoing power cuts (RadioNZ)

18 Feb: Wellington and lower north island still without power days after weather bomb (RadioNZ)

17 Feb: Live weather: river breaches banks, floods close highways in canterbury (RadioNZ)

17 Feb: Live weather: floods close roads around banks peninsula as downpour moves south (RadioNZ)

16 Feb: Lower north island communities cut off by ‘unprecedented’ flooding (Stuff.co.nz)

16 Feb: ‘we just couldn’t cope’: residents dig out drains after lower hutt suburb submerged by flooding (Stuff.co.nz)

16 Feb: Winds gust to 240km/h on lower north island's east coast (RadioNZ)

16 Feb: Wind gusts measuring up to 240km/h recorded on lower north island's east coast (RadioNZ)

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