Editing Napier, New Zealand (section)

===Modern history===
Napier was the scene of an [[Napier shootings|armed attack by cannabis dealer Jan Molenaar]] on three police officers searching his home in May 2009. He killed one officer, and wounded two others and a civilian. He continued to fire shots from his house, which police besieged, until he committed suicide 40 hours later.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10571362 |title=Napier shooting: Siege over as Molenaar's body located |date=9 May 2009 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=9 May 2009}}</ref>

On 9 November 2020, a local state of emergency was declared in Napier after the region received 237&nbsp;mm of rainfall across 24 hours – the most daily rainfall in the city since 1963 and the second most since records began.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wiltshire |first1=Laura |title=State of emergency as two months' rain falls on Napier in 24 hours |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hawkes-bay/123346600/state-of-emergency-as-two-months-rain-falls-on-napier-in-24-hours |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=10 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201110021229/https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hawkes-bay/123346600/state-of-emergency-as-two-months-rain-falls-on-napier-in-24-hours |archive-date=10 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The event caused widespread flooding, slips, power cuts and evacuations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Georgina-May |title=Napier flooding: State of emergency declared as floods cause landslips, evacuations and power cuts |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300153612/napier-flooding-state-of-emergency-declared-as-floods-cause-landslips-evacuations-and-power-cuts |access-date=9 November 2020 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=9 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201109100240/https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300153612/napier-flooding-state-of-emergency-declared-as-floods-cause-landslips-evacuations-and-power-cuts |archive-date=9 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Flooding in Napier as heavy rain sweeps across North Island |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/430190/flooding-in-napier-as-heavy-rain-sweeps-across-north-island |access-date=9 November 2020 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |date=9 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201109100458/https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/430190/flooding-in-napier-as-heavy-rain-sweeps-across-north-island |archive-date=9 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On 14 February 2023, floods caused by [[Cyclone Gabrielle]] destroyed bridges over the [[Tutaekuri River]], and damaged a major regional electrical substation at Redclyffe, which cut power to much of northern Hawke's Bay including its telecommunication infrastructure.<ref name="stuff-gabrielle-transpower">{{Cite web |title=Gisborne and Hawke's Bay could be without power for 'weeks', Transpower warns |last=Pullar-Strecker |first=Tom |date=13 February 2023 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131223166/gisborne-and-hawkes-bay-could-be-without-power-for-weeks-transpower-warns |access-date=19 February 2023 }}</ref> Flooding also caused extensive property damage to [[Esk River (Hawke's Bay)|Esk Valley]], [[Taradale, New Zealand|Taradale]] and [[Meeanee, New Zealand|Meeanee]], as well as loss of crops, livestock and several human lives.<ref name="stuff-gabrielle-hb">{{Cite web |title=Cyclone Gabrielle: In Hawke's Bay, a week of devastation that time forgot |last=Duff |first=Michelle |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=18 February 2023 |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300810707/cyclone-gabrielle-in-hawkes-bay-a-week-of-devastation-that-time-forgot |access-date=19 February 2023 }}</ref>