A super East Coast regional council will have 11 members representing seven wards stretching over 500km from the Wharerata ranges, near Gisborne, to Cape Palliser, Wellington region.
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Protesters, a spot of taekwondo, a look at Plunket, a chat with firefighters and a tour of one of the most advanced new businesses in the country - another day in the life of Prime Minister John Key, who was in Napier for a whistlestop tour yesterday
The father of the 7-year-old boy who was badly injured in a hit and run on Sunday is struggling to come to terms with how the driver of the car could leave his son lying in the street.
An "incredibly rare and strange" act of vandalism on a Hawke's Bay winery will cost the owners 8250 bottles of market wine, and potentially an exporting contract to Japan.
Here's a first for Hawke's Bay's premier club rugby competition's weekly MVP award.
Join the conversationThe Napier elections will go ahead as scheduled despite possible council reorganisation and mayor Barbara Arnott's announcement she will not seek re-election.
I agree with you Mr. Frame, Yes NCC needs experienced councillors but considering that one of the possible application questions was "Do you have one foot in the grave" "YES?" "Perfect" A Younger council would possibly see the generation that Napier...
Speculation is rife in Dannevirke about the possible identity of last week's $14 million Big Wednesday winner.
Yep keep it quiet, with that sort of money people will be expecting you to buy up the rail line to gisborne...
Greater Wellington Regional Council says it's been "blindsided" by a Hawke's Bay plan to take over more than half its territory in a bid to form a new East Coast Regional Council.
Well done Fenton, why not some out of the box ideas. The amalgamation debate does not exist...just two sides forcing outlandish claims on an uninformed public. Interesting Hastings Major concerned about lack of assets from Horizon........Napier...
Havelock North residents face information overload as people are being asked to provide feedback in just a few weeks, on four major proposals shaping the future of the suburb.
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About 100 people marched to the HB Regional Council offices to protest a lack... more
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Barry Gibb wowed the Mission Concert 2013 with a string of Bee Gees hits. more
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Thousands of people enjoyed 2013 Waitangi Day celebrations at two events on... more
Hawke's Bay Today is launching a new compact newspaper on 25 February. ... more
Sir Paul Holmes has left his Hawke's Bay home in a moving ceremony, with a... more
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Broadcasting legend Sir Paul Holmes died peacefully at his home in Hawke's Bay... more
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Join the conversationWhen Rex Hawkins retired as a detective in 1990, a troubling loose end stuck in his mind. An innocent family man had been shot in cold blood outside a service-station, and no one had been brought to justice. It had fallen upon Mr Hawkins to act as the Taupo police's support person to the grieving whanau of victim Rodney Tahu, a loving father and Saturday morning rugby referee. But what burned inside Mr Hawkins then and ever since was that he had always known the identity of the man who pulled the trigger. He had even arrested Menzies Reginald John Hallett just over 24 hours after the 1979…
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