Wealthy Scottish Industrialist funds library
This year is 60 years since the original Hastings War Memorial Library was opened.
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Stand aside people - I have my First Aid certificate!
We bandaged each other's pretending arterial bleeds and compound fractures.
Driving programme exceeding expectations
Research shows high number of offenders who passed their licenses, went on to get jobs.
Tribute to a special volunteer, a vital cog in the wheel
Volunteers are a key indicator of the health of an organisation, Laura Vodanovich says.
Satire has an essential place in politics
Was an ad the wrong vehicle for taking the P out of a politician?
Bruce Bisset: RMA reform demands our close scrutiny
Reform of the Resource Management Act is well overdue.
Wyn Drabble: Exploring unusual systems of belief
Researching some of the world's more unusual systems of belief.
Editorial: A Sikh temple, Christian churches and fairness
Both the Peak Vision and Village Baptist churches near Havelock North are on similar land.
Sevu Reece highlights farcical eligibility rules
Elite rugby nations can still goose step around articles of ambiguity to qualify players.
Middle NZ: Better to pick up work than bugs
Someone coughs near you and wham it's your turn to feel like rubbish.
Opinion: Vote but be smart about it
Don't vote because someone looks nice - be as smart as you want your councillors to be.
Roger Moroney: Beachfront villa with top views...for free
Great to see that beachfront building skills are still strong.
Watch out for flora vandals
The need to destroy something for the sake of it doesn't make sense.
Gambling 'a double edged sword'
Funds for community good projects is more important than ever.
Stories behind archived documents bring them to life
Last year we acquired a wonderful series of glass plate negatives.
Earthquake settles harbour dispute
Debate raged between breakwater and inner harbour factions.
Bruce Bisset: Time farmers thought more about cargo
Sometime in the next week, a ship carrying an undisclosed cargo will dock in New Zealand.
Stop the weasel words on climate talk - time for action
Let's be leaders and an example for others
Put your hand up if you knew laws pertaining to overthrows?
Hey, why not use the reserve day to determine winners ... if it happens in 20 years or so?
Here a cone, there a cone, everywhere there are cones
Every way you turn in Hawke's Bay at the moment the side of the road is covered with them.
Gracious face in defeat but behind closed doors it's another story
We humbly accept our fate, writes Adam Green.
Craig Cooper: EIT doesn't need saving, thanks
EIT doesn't need saving, thank you very much.
Opinion: Leave Tainui Reserve for walkers, not mountain bikers
Should Tainui Reserve be mountain bike free?
It's only a game. But what a game it was
5am. T-shirt on backwards. NZ versus England .. what could go wrong?
What-if moments make the Cricket World Cup a humdinger
It's the twists and turns of imperfections that made the ICC World Cup a sporting shrine.
Consider carefully before purchasing IPOs
As an IPO investor you are supplying capital to the economy
From the MTG: Making moves to remove plastic
The MTG has been recycling for years and Laura Vodanovich is trying to do so at home, too.
Greyhounds and prisoners make friends
These programmes are well established in the USA and Australia
'Made up digger' helps build air raid shelters
Two years after the war had ended the seven air raid shelters were demolished in 1947.
With daughter's baby due, what could possibly go wrong?
COMMENT: Fate gave me a couple of days of uneventfulness before unleashing.
Leaders to practise self-care strategies
Businesses must change the culture of 'just dealing with stress'.
Heirs to ODI world cup throne will add pizzazz — GoT it?
Nothing beats pure entertainment when you've had it up to the eyeballs in talking shop.
Bruce Bisset: Growing pains instead of profits
Radiata pine logs cannot compete with higher-quality sawn timbers.