Lotto winner Lou Te Keeti talks to Gareth Morgan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lou Te Keeti talks to Gareth Morgan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The attacked is described as tall and fat with a beard or goatee.

One last band of rain will soak the country before a couple of days of fine weather.

Transience has hit a record high in low-decile schools as the housing crisis hits children

AUT Millennium is coming to Hawke's Bay. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Affco's case is being heard in the Supreme Court in Wellington today.

Latest REINZ figures show regional growth driving national median price increase.

The regional council will hear oral submissions on the 2017-2018 Annual Plan today.

Don't shoot the Hawke's Bay Regional Council for trying to care, writes Bruce Bisset.

Donated second-hand gear to lift young players on the eve of the winter sport season.

Lake Waikaremoana was a top summer stop-off this season. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Ingenious Kiwi venture fixes bicycles to a disused section of the Napier-Gisborne rail.

A plan to tar-seal State Highway 38 is underway. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Wairoa butcher Kiri Gilbert believes any time is the right time to uplift a community, and he's done just that - through song. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Some blast agreement as 'bunkum' but others see it as a useful framework

A large amount of offal spilled onto State Highway 2 west of Wairoa.

After serving the Wairoa community for 28 years the Wairoa Budget Advisory Service now faces an uncertain future after the Ministry of Social Development pulled its funding. Made with funding from NZ On Air

A man was attacked and his car stolen in the incident, police say.

Police would like to speak to anyone who saw a hitchhiker in the vicinity of the Gisborne Park Golf Club on Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

A record number of entrants were hanging on for dear life as horses kicked and bulls bucked at the Wairoa A&P Show rodeo. The rodeo

Emergency services were not called immediately after attack.

State Highway 2 between Gisborne and Wairoa will be closed at some point over the next two days to investigate at fatal bus crash.

There was a record downpour in Auckland, a tornado in Taranaki and "quake lights" above Wellington. Oh, and 2016 was likely also New Zealand's hottest year on record.

It could be two or more days before the Gisborne area gets power after a light plane crashed into power lines this morning, cutting electricity to the city.

A driver has been airlifted to hospital after a serious truck crash on the East Coast this morning.

Temperatures in some parts of the country have climbed over 30 degrees before midday.

A reward of $5000 is being offered as part of a quest to find a painted mural that went missing from the Wairoa Centennial Library

Woman died after her car veered off the road in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Only five days into November, 10 people have already died on our roads, and police fear another 60 to 70 people could be killed before the end of the year.