Getting down and dirty and having a lot of fun was the aim of 2 thousand competitors in the tough guy and gal challenge. The course included swamp crossings, spiders web net climb, barb wire, hurdles and lots of mud. HBToday photographer Paul Taylor was there.

Loaded Tough Guy and Gal Challenge at Clifton Station on the Cape coast near Hastings

Clive's premier men won the Maddison Trophy for the first time since 2000 with a 37-7 drubbing of defending champions Napier Old Boys Marist at Park Island.

Clive women's rugby team retained their Hawke's Bay women's championship title with a 48-28 win over Taradale at Farndon Park

Watch Video 2. Pacific workers in Hawke's Bay - who benefits and who suffers? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Watch Video 1. Eleven years of the RSE scheme - who benefits and who suffers? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Watch Video 3. Horticulture is booming in Hawke's Bay. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lush new turf has begun to be laid at Napier's McLean Park, giving a small taster of what sports fans can expect when the $4.9 million stadium re-turfing project is complete. Video Warren Buckland.

Part-time chef Jason Williams said he was just out for a Monday morning fish earlier this week when he thought he had hooked a "decent sized" kahawai - initially unaware of the real size of his prize. Video Warren Buckland.

Liv Flynn, from Bird and Wildlife rescue Recovering a large number of pheasants dumped at Westshore beach in Napier

National cyclocross event at EIT in Taradale, Napier. Women Elite, Junior men and Junior women race.

An anesthetic technician at Hawke's Bay Hospital has been named the DHB's 'recycling King'. Peter Young injects his sense of humour encouraging his surgical services colleagues to use his 'correct' way of recycling. He marks the rubbish they give him on a sliding scale and has helped make recycling a success.

Russel Norman and Sara Howell await their fate for a Greenpeace protest after making an appearance at Napier court today.

Opening of the new facilities at Te Mata Park Havelock North

Family talk to CHB reporter Clinton Llewellyn after their Waipawa home was destroyed by fire

Staffordshire Bull Terrier stands the test of time. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The new playground at Anderson Park in Napier came alive to the fun and laughter of children and their families in the second week of the school holidays. Video by Duncan Brown.

The new chapel at the Hastings cemetery was officially opened by Hastings Mayor Sandra Hazelhurst. 'We've been really sad to have it closed for so many years so today is a great celebration to have a beautiful community facility reopened'.

Hawke's Bay nurses take strike action.

Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters chats to media in Napier

Peni Edwards organised Healing the Wound, an artistic event on the Craggy Range track Te Mata Peak, Havelock North.

Bay City Rollers Vs Death Stars. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Members of the Hawke's Bay Classic Motorcycle Club set off to find the club's "champion tosser" in a gumboot-throwing competition, on their annual Ringo Starr ride from Omahu to Taihape. Video by Duncan Brown.

Fishing the Tukituki river mouth at Haumoana, near Hastings.

Nick Stewart of Stewart Group, Hastings is putting his family’s 20 year vertical Te Mata Coleraine wine collection up for the Cranford Hospice wine auction. He tells us why.

Campbell Leckie from the HBRC with one of his new wireless possum traps

Native trees the answer for East Coast forestry. Made with fuding from NZ On Air.

First Union workers and supporters joined staff from Farmers (Hastings and Napier), in a 12 noon strike and protest for better wages, outside the store in Hastings St, Napier. Video by Duncan Brown

Port Pack has just broken its yearly record for containers. Napier Port General Cargo Manager, Mark Babbington tells us how.

Hawke's Bay Secondary Schools Girls rugby final between Karamu HS and Hastings Girls HS.