James Parsons, and Leah Fitzgerald take out the Air New Zealand Hawke's Bay International Marathon

Hawkes Bay International Marathon sets off from Napier

Hawke's Bay International Marathon registration

Fire fighters from Waimarama, Havelock North, Hastings and the HDC Rural Fire Service put out a fire that started near a house bus and caravan that moved into nearby scrub.

Orokohanga Music Programme. 17 Camberley children given violins and cellos for their lessons at Camberley School in Hastings.

You can also read about Grant and Sally Charteris, Tikokino deer velvet farmers in The Country lift out in Hawke's Bay Today. Video Warren Buckland.

Read it in our liftout, The Country. Watch this video of Napier Port Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Awards, Pan Pac Hawke's Bay Farm Forester of the Year. The Ennor's Ranui Farm in Central Hawke's Bay is a beautiful example of how trees can enhance the environment. Video Warren Buckland.

Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule called a public meeting at the Havelock North community centre over Te Mata Mushroom Farm's odour problem and the proposed Kura school.

Nathan Ferguson, from Hastings, will be running in the Hawke's Bay marathon at the weekend to raise funds for the Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter Service.

Though we are still enjoying warm temperatures, Autumn colours signal we are nearing the end of the golden weather. Video Warren Buckland.

Winemakers and sponsors get together at the official launch of the Hawke's Bay A&P Bayleys Wine Awards, at Trinity Hill Winery, near Hastings. Video by Duncan Brown

Travellers head south after Hastings and Napier were lucky to escape the deluge of rain experienced in Dannevirke earlier in the day.

Renault Electric Vehicles (EV) visit Unison in Hastings

Official opening of the newly extended Bayswater Vehicles branch in Stortford Lodge, Hastings. Video by Duncan Brown

Ailing penguins bond in rehab. Timmy and Tux formed a special bond at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, when their chances of survival in the wild were slim.

About 650 people took part in today's Hawke's Bay Today Country2Coast, with courses on the Rotary Pathways from Puketapu, Haumoana, Napier and Clive. Video by Duncan Brown

Eight years ago, Napier woman Sheree Yates was rushed to Waikato Hospital by the Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter. In a couple of weeks, her family will take part in the Air New Zealand Hawke's Bay International Marathon to raise funds for the service. Video by Duncan Brown

Show director Ali Beal talks about tomorrow's auditions for the 1960's show Hair, at The Playhouse Theatre in Hastings. Video by Duncan Brown

A good sized crowd attended the Anzac Day service at Havelock North cenotaph.

Outside the Hospital memorial chapel people gathered for a mid morning Anzac Service.

The Soundshell on Marine parade was the venue for the Napier Anzac Dawn Service.

RSA Ride of Respect, Social Cruzers NZ , about 100 riders ride through Taradale.

Frazer Briggs from Hamilton at the controls during Wings over Awatoto in Napier

On Saturday 180 Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) sailors from HMNZS Te Kaha’s marched through the streets of Napier, having been handed a charter by Napier Mayor Bill Dalton, signed by all Hawke's Bay mayors, giving the navy frigate special freedoms now it has adopted a home-away-from-home port in Napier. The arrival of the frigate on Thursday, with the logistics and support ship HMNZS Endeavour, gives Hawke's Bay one of its largest-ever naval presences.

kid’s ‘fish out’ day at HB Fish & Game’s Game Farm Napier. Kids try their hand at fly fishing.

Jim Clayton, 98, Poraiti, Napier, is giving $100,000 to Taradale Primary School for music scholarships in memory of his brother Sydney Clayton, who died in WW2. Video by Duncan Brown

ACT party leader David Seymour speaking to Pure Hawke's Bay

- Memorial service for Constable Glenn McKibbin, who was shot dead in Flaxmere, Hastings, on 21 April, 1996. Video by Duncan Brown

Serious Crash Unit investigation and clean-up after a fatal accident n which a seven year-old boy died, on the Hawke's Bay Expressway in Napier.

The Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha arrives at Napier Port.