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Video: Strong public submission to independent review into Civil Defence response to Cyclone Gabrielle

About 1,000 submissions have been made to the Independent Review into the Civil Defence response to Cyclone Gabrielle. The independent review was launched in A...

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Napier City Council Annual Report reveals impact of Cyclone Gabrielle News

Napier City Council Annual Report reveals impact of Cyclone Gabrielle

The impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle across all areas of Council’s business have been laid out in detail in Napier City Council’s Annual Report. The re...

Gravel extraction underway at Waipawa News

Gravel extraction underway at Waipawa

Tenders have been awarded by the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to two contractors to remove up to 300,000 cubic meters of gravel from the Upper Tukituki ca...

SH2 south of Wairoa opens to one lane News

SH2 south of Wairoa opens to one lane

State Highway 2 just south of Wairoa opened to one lane at midday today as work continues to clear a slip. Heavy rainfall over the weekend led to the slip, whi...

Woody debris being removed from rivers and beaches across the region News

Woody debris being removed from rivers and beaches across the region

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and the Silt Recovery Taskforce continue to work hard to remove woody debris from beaches around bridges and from riverbanks...

SH2 south of Wairoa to remain closed overnight for safety News

SH2 south of Wairoa to remain closed overnight for safety

State Highway 2 just south of Wairoa will remain closed overnight following a large slip in the early hours of this morning. Heavy rainfall over the weekend le...

Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi looks to steady waka after challenging 12 months News

Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi looks to steady waka after challenging 12 months

There is light at the end of the tunnel for Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated (NKII) after unprecedented challenges in 2023 due to the impact of Cyclone Gabriell...

One person dies, another injured, following crash on SH2, south of Wairoa News

One person dies, another injured, following crash on SH2, south of Wairoa

One person has died and one has been seriously injured in a crash on State Highway 2 south of Wairoa this morning. Their car is reported to have collided with...

Car crashes into slip blocking State Highway 2, south of Wairoa News

Car crashes into slip blocking State Highway 2, south of Wairoa

Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on State Highway 2, south of Wairoa. A car is reported to have collided with a slip blocking State Highway...

Video: Hawke’s Bay tourism set for a big summer after “mammoth’ Robbie Williams concerts News

Video: Hawke’s Bay tourism set for a big summer after “mammoth’ Robbie Williams concerts

Hawke’s Bay tourism is set of a big summer after two “mammoth” Robbie Williams concerts which attracted scores of visitors to the region. In...

Emergency services respond to serious crash on SH2, Dannevirke News

Emergency services respond to serious crash on SH2, Dannevirke

Emergency services are attending a serious crash on State Highway 2 northeast of Dannevirke. Police said the crash, involving multiple vehicles and people, hap...

Video: Man winched to safety following injury off Napier coast News

Video: Man winched to safety following injury off Napier coast

A fisherman was winched to safety and taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital after injuring his arm off the Napier Coast.  Maritime New Zealand's Rescue Coordinati...

No collecting of shellfish News

No collecting of shellfish

People are being warned not to collect shellfish from anywhere along the coast from Te Awanga to Bay View after harmful viruses and bacteria have been found in...

HazMobile collection postponed due to weather risk News

HazMobile collection postponed due to weather risk

A HazMobile event planned for tomorrow (Sunday) is being postponed due to the incoming weather warnings. The warning is for the area north of Napier, however,...

New SH51 Awatoto roundabout to bring safety and efficiency to intersection News

New SH51 Awatoto roundabout to bring safety and efficiency to intersection

Work to construct a new roundabout at Awatoto on State Highway 51 has been brought forward a year, as works progress to make that stretch of road safer for all...

Hawke's Bay power consumers to get dividend payment soon News

Hawke's Bay power consumers to get dividend payment soon

Power consumers registered by Thursday 16 November will receive payment direct to their nominated account from Friday 24 November 2023. HBPCT Chair, Diana Kirt...

What the new Cabinet will look like News

What the new Cabinet will look like

Incoming Prime Minister and National Party leader Christopher Luxon has announced his new Cabinet, which is made up of MPs from his own party, New Zealand First...

Luxon announces new government, with Peters and Seymour taking turns as Deputy Prime Minister News

Luxon announces new government, with Peters and Seymour taking turns as Deputy Prime Minister

Incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced his new government, with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and ACT leader David Seymour taking tur...

Multiple arrests made in relation to drug offences in Hawke's Bay News

Multiple arrests made in relation to drug offences in Hawke's Bay

A significant months’ long police operation targeting the sale and supply of methamphetamine in the Hawke’s Bay area has this week culminated in a s...