NEWS
Kimi kids up for playground build project
It would be hard to find kids more excited than the youngsters at Flaxmere’s Kimi Ora Community School. A $6 million rebuild of the school is due to star...
Tap water in some parts of Napier may be discoloured this week
Napier City Council is carrying out scheduled maintenance of the drinking water reticulation network this week and is warning the work may result in some reside...
Substantial Opoutama farm up for sale
The biggest farm within the Gisborne, Wairoa and Northern Hawke’s Bay region to come on the market in the past five years is up for sale. Tunanui Station...
Adventure Wairoa saw Wairoa District well-represented in awards
Adventure Wairoa did the Wairoa District volunteer community proud at the Trustpower National Community Awards in Tauranga over the past weekend. Russel McCrac...
Session to help migrants understand our school system
A free information session for migrants is being held in Napier tomorrow to explain how the New Zealand school system works. The speaker at the session will be...
Osmanthus Gardens in Hastings set to come to light
On Wednesday the switch will be flicked to light up Cornwall Park in Hastings for the start of the annual Osmanthus Gardens Lantern Festival. This will be the...
‘Raise Love with Biscuits’ campaign supporting Bay families with sick children
Hawke’s Bay real estate agent Chris Baylis has launched a campaign today to encourage the donation of biscuits in support of families who stay at Ronald M...
Napier City Council gets into the April Fools spirit
Napier City Council has marked the first of April by putting out a media release advising residents that in three months’ time, all dogs in the city will...
Preserving with Gran
My gran Daphne cooked, baked and preserved for most of her 94 years. When she passed away last year, I inherited her go-to cook book. Filled with handwritten...
Gardening: Now’s the time to prepare for spring
On a recent trip to the local swimming pool I noticed a sign on the wall. It said, “Summer bodies are created in winter”. Very true, I thought. Thi...
Students build nesting boxes for first on-port penguin sanctuary
Students at Napier Central School have joined forces with Napier Port to build 24 penguin nesting boxes that will be used in New Zealand’s first on-port p...
How one Bay company is helping solve our problem with plastic
The reality of our global plastic crisis has finally hit home. When China closed its door to the world’s waste, nations were forced to look at their plas...
Movie review: Daffodils
A few weeks ago, our team members, along with other cinema managers from around Hawke’s Bay, spread out in our auditorium to treat ourselves to a preview...
Travel: Nature lessons in the picturesque Marlborough Sounds
As we drove through the windy roads of Marlborough, a scared goat jumped from the side of the road through a bush leading to a steep cliff face. A couple minut...
Bay leads country for visitor spending growth in February
Visitor spending in Hawke’s Bay over the summer season reached record levels, according to the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTE) published...
Opinion: Our tikanga is a koha to the world
Māori have a unique koha to the world and it’s called tikanga which is our custom based on whakapapa, our relationship with all things animate and inanima...
Traffic lights turned on at Napier Port gate tomorrow
An initiative to improve the safety of motorists, pedestrians and cyclists at Napier Port’s heavily congested western entrance will reach completion tomor...
Police seek witnesses to expressway crash
Police are seeking witnesses to a two-vehicle crash on the Napier-Hastings Expressway this morning. The crash happened at around 8.45am, just north of the roun...
Hastings council tightens plastic recycling policy
Hastings district council has made a decision to restrict the types of plastics its contractors pick up during their kerb-side collections “to ensure that...
World Cup winning Black Ferns to attend Unison Girls’ Rugby Gala Day
Budding women’s rugby players will have the opportunity to meet Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 Champion Black Ferns while honing their skills at the U...
