Temperatures have surged over 30C in Hawke's Bay.

Two charter schools were paid $1.5m between them on the day Jacinda Ardern was sworn in.

A landslide between Wairoa and Gisborne created a lake which is rising at 60cm a day.

Gisborne, Napier and Hastings are the only main centres set to get clear skies today.

Gisborne Mayor outlines his sixth-term goals. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Gisborne Mayor outlines his sixth-term goals for 2008. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Eastern parts of North Island - from Northland to Gisborne - appear to be in Hola's path.

Warm temperatures are forecast and a tropical cyclone looks unlikely to make landfall.

Council will submit the name Turanganui a Kiwa/Poverty Bay to the Geographic Board

A farmer has been killed in a crash on farmland in Motu. Photo / Google

The NZ First 'One Billion Trees' programme is expected to cost $180 million over 10 years

About $61.7 million worth of projects were announced at the Provincial Growth Fund launch.

Will the regional fund reopen East Coast rail? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Hopes are high the Government's regional development fund will reopen the Napier to Gisborne rail line. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Educationalist David Hood says Tai Wānanga shows what all schools need to do.

The typical rainfall for all of February fell in one 24-hour period.

Unemployment rate drops on the back of economic growth in Bay region.

You think it's been hot so far this summer? Wait till tomorrow.

Talakai Aholelei also disqualified from driving, ordered to pay $36,000 in reparations.

Trade Me sees positive outlook for new jobs in the Hawke's Bay region.

Duncan Chisholm is a St John emergency medical technician and a DJ in his spare time.

International scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution tackles Zealandia missions.

A transport company has been charged over the fatal Tongan brass band crash near Gisborne.

MPI and DoC are warning that they will continue to take a zero tolerance on poachers.

The 'pigsty' left behind at the Warehouse is typical of RNV goers a local says.

Festival organisers accused of refusing free services to reduce sexual assault.

Gold Coast man posts on Facebook about festival goer who wore only glitter paint.

The glitter-wearing reveller isn't sure if the man who grabbed her should be named.

Video of woman being grabbed at RNV sparks claims naked men were treated differently

Woman videoed being grabbed at RNV, wanted the video to stay up to raise awareness.