Hastings District Council nearly $400m in debt as cyclone costs compound
All Hawke’s Bay councils are expected to set high rates increases in coming years.
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One of Hawke's Bay's hidden gems is open again in time for the holidays.
'Inspiring' demoltion process in Hastings
Materials will be reused in Hawke's Bay and Tonga.
Water restrictions in a near record-wet year: 'We need to rethink our approach'
Napier, Hastings and Waimārama are now under water restrictions - is this the future?
'Fight's over now': Man won't unblock road even if council pays up $200k-plus demand
Eru Smith said he has now given up fighting the council over the use of his land.
Cyclone Gabrielle: First two homeowners accept buyout offers
Across Napier and Hastings, 147 properties were too unsafe to live in.
Blocked by rocks: Landowner wants $200,000 to reopen beachfront drive
Eru Smith says he's tired of negotiating with council and took matters into his own hands.
Hastings Golf Club wins hosting rights for NZ PGA Championships
Plans are now under way to have the NZ PGA reinstated to the Australasian Tour.
Letters: MyWay deserves financial support
The latest letters to the editor on MyWay, a roadblock, and a CHB dam.
Iwi boss installs boulders to block vehicle access to beach
Bayden Barber says children are being 'run off the beach by vehicles'.
Hastings mayor and high-profile councillor go toe-to-toe as rift deepens
Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst and councillor Damon Harvey are increasingly at odds.
Hastings' $70k rebrand defended: 'We could go back to being the dull place we were a decade ago'
Councillor and marketer says the spending is a "tough balance" after the cyclone.
'Fool's paradise': Why residents want vehicles off a famous Kiwi beach
'There’s a culture now ... the noise, the mess - awful, awful, awful.'
Flash Planet? Revamped Hastings icon Splash Planet to open on Monday
A fair bit of water will greet guests of Splash Planet on Monday.
'Intolerable risk to life': Behind the scenes of the office buying $110m of cyclone-smashed homes
140 homeowners in Hawke's Bay are meeting the teams that will buy their flooded homes.
Buy-out meetings for cyclone hit properties under way
More than half have had first meetings with the special council office or are about to.
Inside the newly repaired Splash Planet, where everything is on the up, even the prices
Adult entry is now $40 at the gate, and a swim for seniors has gone from $7 to $32.
Splash Planet advertisement casting call asked for ‘athletic-looking’ models
The 'distasteful' casting call for a new TV theme park ad was revised due to backlash.
'It was luck, really': The emergency resilience pods that aided Wairoa in hour of need
Twenty one emergency resilience pods arrived in Wairoa just days before Cyclone Gabrielle.
1.2 million cubic metres to go: Plea for funding to remove cyclone silt in Hawke's Bay
More than half of the silt dumped by the cyclone is still sitting, waiting to be cleared.
Council changes procedures for social housing after Tenancy Tribunal finds fault
A social housing tenant was allegedly called “ungrateful” by a council contractor.
'Unconscious with smoke all around': Neighbours hailed for dragging man from burning flat
"It could have been a far worse outcome without their quick thinking."
New affordable rental homes funded in Hastings
Funding for Hastings District Council and Taiwhenua housing partnerships announced.
'Fanciful': The three words a NZ council is using to approve denser suburban housing
It should be used to describe granny flats or sleepouts, not separate homes, planners say.
Hawke’s Bay news in brief: Special service to recognise pets and animals
Here's the latest news in brief from around the region.
Hastings District Council promises prudency after $11.6m deficit reveal; cyclone mainly to blame
About 65 per cent of deficit was attributed to cyclone costs.
'We are in this little lost category': Cyclone property owners still waiting for answers
Category 2P homeowners are running out of time - and money - while they wait for answers.
Community meeting before Redclyffe Bridge reopening decision
It's almost six months since Cyclone Gabrielle blasted apart the Redlyffe Bridge.
Voluntary buyouts for Category 3 homes on the table
Hawke's Bay's five councils now have to agree to the Govt's cost-sharing model.
Council email mistake shifts 10 landowners into cyclone red zone
Hastings council told Pākōwhai residents their land category had changed. It had not.
Mystery solved: What's eating hot-water cylinders - and how it can be stopped
The report is out - why Hastings hot-water cylinders are failing at alarmingly high rates.
Bridging the gap: Redclyffe Bridge link could re-open in mid-July
Secondary Napier-Hastings bridge nears re-opening - five months after the cyclone.
Regional council data reveals multi-billion-dollar cost of cyclone for Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay Regional Council data shows the cost of Cyclone Gabrielle so far is over $5b.