Top accolade for Napier businessman, identity and tech guru
Wayne Norrie has been honoured with an ONZM.
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Top brass now: From humble band member to a King's Honour
Murray Warrington, MNZM, joined the Hastings Citizens Band in 1961, aged 11.
King's Birthday Honours: Steve Wyn-Harris recognised for services to farming, rural communities
The Waipukurau dry-stock farmer and media identity receives an ONZM.
Business leaders named in King's Birthday Honours
Vegetable-growing, IT, a four-day week, journalism: honours for leaders in their fields.
It takes a village: Tofilau Talalelei Taufale accepts King's Honour for Pacific community
The health professional is proud to have helped give Pacific people a voice.
Hawke’s Bay film industry starting to blossom
Opia will use the skills of local creatives to promote filmmaking in Hawke's Bay.
Hukarere Girls' College buys motel for new dorms
Te Aute Trust Board have purchased the Wine Country Motel in Havelock North for dorms.
Heavy rain could spoil King’s Birthday in Hawke’s Bay
MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for King's Birthday.
Shear triumph in World champs build-up
Two brothers from Hawke's Bay rule ahead of this month's Shearing World Championships
Firefighters yet to determine cause of large Hastings shed fire
Firefighters fought a shed fire that sent billowing smoke into Hastings skies on Sunday.
Football cup hopes end for two Hawke’s Bay football teams
The Napier Marist men and Havelock North Wanderers knew they were up against it
Taradale start trophy defence with win over Hastings
Hawke's Bay club rugby: Taradale scored six tries in their 34-20 victory.
‘Very dark place’: Worker's struggle after losing hand in meatworks accident
Employer Silver Fern Farms has been fined $283,500 for the workplace accident.
Cell phones in the cells still a threat after police bust drug ring
In Hawke's Bay Regional Prison, 78 cell phones were confiscated over three years.
Chills on the way for King’s Birthday weekend
Get ready to make the most of this long weekend's weather.
A Havelock North toastie might be the best in NZ — so what does The Joey taste like?
James Pocock tries The Joey, the Great NZ Toastie Takeover finalist from Best Burgers.
Third time's a charm: Bay boatbuilder sails away with hat-trick
Hawke's Bay's Lee Cummings is the man to beat in the boatbuilding world.
'Steampunk' gun haul: Police seize cache of unusual weapons
The guns appear to be a mix of pipes, a knife, and other metal parts welded together.
The broken heart of Rissington: What the release of Hawke’s Bay’s latest maps means
3000 homeowners opened an email to discover their future. It was always going to be tough.
Trevor's triumph as he climbs steep hill to celebrate 104th birthday
In the cold dark, a man with two walking sticks pauses for a breather, then keeps going.
Hawke’s Bay councillors back staff as confusion over recovery bills continues
Perfect paperwork 'absurd' when staff are standing in rising rivers, they argue.
$1b bill for Govt and councils to buy out cyclone-hit homes
Zoning maps will reveal what Hawke’s Bay communities could be deemed unliveable.
'Confiscated': Hawke’s Bay flood victims fear they'll be forced off their land
'All it does is throw up more questions - it feels like we're having land confiscated.'
Serious injuries after car hits pedestrian in Taradale
A pedestrian reportedly hit by a vehicle near Taradale has been seriously injured.
Local Focus: Meet the 90+ master swimmers
At 91, Michael Tunnicliffe is the oldest competitor in the 2023 Masters Swimming Champs.
Hastings family grieve loss of cat and kittens in sleepout fire
A family lost their young pets in a fire that consumed the sleepout.
Getting women hooked on fly-fishing
Hawke’s Bay Fish and Game aims to get more women hooked on fly fishing.
Human touch still matters at T&G
To meet demand for apples, T&G have built a packhouse twice the size of their last one.
‘Outrageous’: $9m of cyclone business support in Hawke’s Bay not spent
The number of grants paid hadn't been finalised, but leftover money would be returned.
Hākinakina Iwi Kainga: Schoolboy matches show our national game at its amateur best
Opinion: Raukura scored an early try, but the visitors were just getting started.
Motorcycle involved in two-vehicle crash on Links Road
One person was moderately injured in the crash involving a motorbike and one other vehicle
Young people involved in fiery fatal crash on SH5, Napier school community shaken
Two people were killed and another was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Stoush over who pays for millions in emergency measures after cyclone
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is struggling to get reimbursement for some costs from NEMA.