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Local Focus: Kevin Watkins on Candidate Camera
Hastings District Council candidate Kevin Watkins says Hastings is surfing a wave.
Local Focus: Alwyn Corban on Candidate Camera
Winemaker Alwyn Corban is running for Hastings District Council.
Local Focus: Simon Nixon on Candidate Camera
Meet Simon Nixon who is running again for Hastings District Council.
Local Focus: Auction houses go viral
This year Hastings has gone from having no auction house to three auction houses.
Napier and Hastings councils to choke the smoke
Napier and Hastings councils are tightening up smoking rules.
Local Focus: A creative world that's not too 'blokey'
The Hawke's Bay Woodturners Guild takes teaching seriously.
Local Focus: Your guardian angels on patrol
They may just be driving around, but Hawke's Bay community patrollers have got your back.
Hawke's Bay, you need to learn to love the Gisborne cockroach
Experts say the Gisborne cockroach needs to be celebrated, not exterminated.
Local Focus: Hastings has more Art Deco architecture than Napier
Hastings' upgrade is revealing more Art Deco buildings than Napier.
Local Focus: Apprentices powering us up
New Kainga Ora development is almost complete as apprenticeship numbers jump.
Local Focus: Shake-up for Bay's public transport
Buses are out and MyWay on-demand large vans are in for Hastings residents from June 7.
Art show immerses viewers into five different worlds
The virtual reality hit art show Terminus is on at Hastings City Art Gallery.
Local Focus: Rissington stumps up for Anzacs
A landmark Hastings tree becomes a striking Anzac sculpture of two back-to-back soldiers.
City Assist helping keep Hastings CBD a better place for all
Hastings' City Assist transforms CBD; mayor gives intruder into video filming telling-off.
Local Focus: Thank GodsOwn for harvesting hopportunity
GodsOwn Brewery harvests its hops using customers' sticky fingers
Local Focus: Big tractor saves little birds
Hawke's Bay's riverbed management is a rare win-win for industry and the environment.
Local Focus: Desperately seeking Dannevirke
Dannevirke is in Tararua District. Or is it?
Local Focus: Hawke's Bay community may lose its water under new rules
Raupunga fears for its water supply but Government says new rules are not finalised.
Local Focus: Rewinding at Ongaonga
Ongaonga Museum shines a light on the days when the small town boomed.
Local Focus: Napier's heavenly jewel
The Hawke's Bay Holt Planetarium is an all-weather starry experience for all the family.
Local Focus: Fighting our kids' summer slump
StoryWalk combines fun with maintaining literacy levels in Napier and Hastings Parks.
Local Focus: How to have a very crafty Christmas
Arts and Crafts Christmas Bazaar a treasure trove of unique gifts.
Local Focus: Everesting challenge a good deed
Everesting at Te Mata Peak raises over $10,000 for Mental Health Foundation.
The dust up, then stress: Two years of struggle at the Havelock North cellphone tower
The neighbourhood took on Spark. The stress it brought the Fookes' has been significant.
Local Focus: Beware the 'frisky' cows of Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay Regional Council reviewing use of 1600ha of flood-control land.
Local Focus: Life lessons from Les - 103 not out
WWll veteran Les Morice has a peaceful recipe for a long and healthy life.
Local Focus: The adapting Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets
How Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets are adapting to Covid restrictions.
Boom to bust? Mānuka honey producers 'can't sell' some of their stock
Hundreds of tonnes of mānuka is now sitting in beekeepers' sheds, producer says.
Local Focus: Flaxmere to get new shopping centre and supermarket
Council has 'gone where angels fear to tread' in suburb's development plans.
Changes and reopenings as Hawke's Bay country pubs turn corner
The decline in Hawke's Bay country pubs appears to be over.
Local Focus: You're being laser-scanned from above
Unison Networks is laser-scanning its network in Rotorua, Taupō and Hawke's Bay.
Local Focus: Too much of a good thing in our rivers
A $6 million project is extracting excess Central Hawke's Bay river gravel for industry.
The $10,000 you never knew you had
A call to bust the Hawke's Bay Power Consumers' Trust. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Watch: Duelling HBRC candidates front up
Tom Belford might appear to be an easy favourite. But the last vote didn't go his way.
Local Focus: Treaty settlement to bring hundreds of new homes to Napier
Mana Ahuriri Trust is building hundreds of new homes. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Access denied through public land planted in kiwifruit
Hastings District Council has many peppercorn agreements to use public land.
Local Focus: Desperately seeking sheep dags
Lack of dags is actually a problem. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: War drovers gone but not forgotten
War memorial drovers' huts up for heritage status. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
'Putrid' rotting skins and pelts present problems at landfill
Increased animal waste causing toxic landfill fumes.
Local Focus: Is geothermal really green energy?
One geothermal station is almost as bad as burning gas. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: The foragers of Hawke's Bay
Cress, mushrooms, persimmons, pomegranates and walnuts. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Hastings' Wattie's invests $20 million chasing pet food markets
Wattie's invests $20million in its HB pet food business. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
The floating threat to Napier City
Is Napier Port a tsunami threat to Napier City? Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Major jump for Hastings rural dog fees
Costs for council have increased from 300 sheep attacks in rural Hastings.
Local Focus: Apple growers on quarantine - 'nobody has been able to answer'
Why are workers from Covid-free countries restricted? Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Māori ward consultation deadline proving a challenge for councils
Decisions pending for Māori seats on Bay councils. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: New visibility for Hastings water storage
Hastings drinking water to be stored above ground. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Concerns power lines won't handle demand spike from electric vehicles
Unison has moved to more time-of-use line charges. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Raw Napier jokes bring raw comedy success
Warning - some of this comedy really is "raw".
Local Focus: The Eskdale Park mountain bike battle
Mountain Bike plans for Eskdale Park have upset users. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Anti-litter 'pester power' for sustainable beauty
18 per cent of people drop litter and it soon mounts up
Local Focus: The Kindness Cup is the biggest prize
Te Mata School's Kindness Cup is making a difference. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Hawke's Bay house sells for more than $1m, double its valuation, after 24 offers
House sells for double its valuation with 24 offers. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Hastings biz hub open for businesses
The Hawke's Bay Business Hub Hastings is open. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
Local Focus: The weighty issue of the bridge to Taihape
The Kuripapango Bridge is partially closed for 3 months. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Napier's tuatara gets new guardians
DOC seeks iwi involvement over tuatara's future.
Local Focus: Export plan for Bay cherries
Hawke's Bay cherries may be heading overseas. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Deco weekend dances on despite cancellation
Deco festival continues thanks to independent events. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: The Dark Sky Project of Maraekākaho
From Graham Palmer's back garden he can see galaxies. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: A worldwide craze at a Parkrun near you
The Parkrun movement is steadily spreading.
Local Focus: Hastings' free public art tours
Free public art tours in Hastings. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Flaxmere sign 'exploiting the poor and impoverished'
Sign caused social-media uproar in two Bay suburbs Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Napier's high-flying scooter champs
Napier is hosting the NZ Scooter Nationals. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Santa sleighs it for 21 years
The real reindeer aren't used due to biosecurity laws. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Hawke's Bay's deadliest highway
The Napier-Taupō road is deadly. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Government stimulus and church hall firing
From shooting to am-drams, the ongoing legacy of halls. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Orchard wages rising thanks to worker shortage, and new RSE rules may lift it further
Hort wages are on the rise as RSE shortage looms. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Covid and the asking of Amanda Palmer
The stranding of Amanda Palmer and the Art of Asking. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Saying goodbye to four wheels
A Hastings couple have been car free for a decade. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Meet Chucky the cockatoo, refugee from Cornwall Park Aviary
Monkeys are gone but large parrots remain at aviary. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Napier's trash is treasure
Napier's annual trash to treasure Recycle Day. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Our paddocks of discontent and the future of feedlots
Farm rules for winter feeding are changing. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: MP ends husband's political ambition
Damon Harvey will no longer run for Hastings Mayor. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: The ice choppers of Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay frost control from above. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Wise words from Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates on Māori incarceration
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates on high prison numbers. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates on workplace partnerships
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates on workers and employers. Made with funding from NZ On Air.