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Building skills for a housing future after Cyclone Gabrielle in Wairoa
'There’s such a huge age range of learners - from school students to grandmothers.'
Wairoa mayor calls for community solutions as 19.5% rate rise proposed
Costs for councils are 'not good news', but ratepayers might have some solutions.
Phone news service operating for quarter of a century needs new volunteers
Those with a talent for talking are urged to put their name forward.
Hawke’s Bay news in brief: Redundancies as Hastings company sold
Hastings-based company Kiwigarden, which produces healthy snacks for kids, has been sold.
School lockdown lifted, police still working on 'ongoing incident' in Wairoa
Council offices were 'among sites immediately locked down as a precaution'.
SH2 reopens after logging truck's roll
Logging truck rolls in Hawke's Bay, leaving the main road littered with its load.
Matariki in Wairoa involves lanterns and fireworks
Bring gumboots and a spade for harakeke planting and checking out inanga spawning sites.
Wet weather cancels Matariki-inspired event in Flaxmere
The event would have featured lanterns being floated in a pond at a park.
Wairoa Athletic's club day promises a community weekend
It's boom times for the club, which hosts rugby, squash, netball and football too.
Purple patch after theft: Bay Blueberries bounces back with industry security advice
Events and workshops will attract growers, exporters and suppliers.
Keeping it Smedley: Trees grown on farm transformed into education facilities by cadets
The cadets built an education hub. Now their attention is focused on a six-stand woolshed.
'Killing our community': SH2 Napier to Wairoa road repairs far too slow, mayor says
A mayor is fed up with the repair work 'taking far too long' on the major highway.
Wairoa horticulture graduates a milestone in trust's plans for economic growth
Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa announces its first five horticulture cadet graduates.
Hawke's Bay gets Faulty Towers dining experience - step inside a 70s restaurant filled with comedy
Three-course meals and five-star comedy will be on offer.
What’s cooking in Wairoa? The classes that Gabrielle created
A new cooking class aims to teach affordability and nutrition of home meals.
Hawke's Bay flood projects get faster consenting process
Streamlined consenting would only be available to applications lodged by councils.
Hawke's Bay home to Lotto winners
The top prize rolled over to a $50m must-be-won draw on Saturday.
'Hope and progress': Keys to repaired home handed over to Wairoa whānau
Tātau Tātau Trust hands over keys to its first repaired home in Wairoa.
They had to abandon their home of 53 years — now a trust has handed the keys back to them
Lavinia Waihape welled with emotion as she thanked all those who had made it happen.
Frasertown hunt returns after three-year hiatus
'It is in your blood, it is part of life. Hopefully, this carries on.'
The busiest man in the game has a lucky Bounce
Ned George got a push into sheepdog trialling from his grandad and hasn't looked back.
A bit unseasonal - a warm week for Hawke’s Bay
Napier was the warmest in the country at 10am on Monday.
Hawke's Bay's Budget 2024 winners and losers
'We now need to work through the detail around how much [money] is coming to Hawke’s Bay.'
Hastings Boys’ High nails Super 8 rugby win over New Plymouth
Super 8 first fifteens rugby started on Saturday.
First council in NZ to introduce Māori ward readies for representation review
All councils have to review representation every six years. Now it's Wairoa's turn.
Cyclone survivor Gabrielle Mei, 89, to move back into her destroyed Wairoa house after 15 months
A year and a half on from the devastation of her namesake, Gabrielle Mei can return home.
Hawke's Bay's the place to be for King's Birthday - swells to ease, 20C-plus expected
Temperatures are expected to be in the low 20s on Thursday to Saturday.
Rugby boom in northern Hawke’s Bay: Could a Wairoa side win a premier club title?
Early days yet, but Wairoa could have its first Poverty Bay premier rugby champions.
Weather: Hawke's Bay poised for cool, dry, fine weekend
Rug up warm on Saturday sidelines.
Kiwi teen sets up website for second-hand uniforms
Teen creates one-stop second-hand uniform website.
Rain warning downgraded for Napier and Hastings; CHB residents asked to conserve water
A rain warning has been downgraded for much of Hawke's Bay, but not northern areas.
'Cliff on the left, dropout on the right': Classrooms set to be transported
Students got a glimpse of their new home before it makes a massive journey.
Road reopens after rescue as storm hits Hawke’s Bay
Flooding crossed two sections of SH2 north of Wairoa.