The Napier City Council is proposing setting up a Council Controlled Trade Organisation (CCTO) to manage the city’s assets in a bid to find ways of reduci...
A draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) proposes investing more than $5.5 billion over the next ten years in the region's transport to rebuild from Cyclone...
Assets including houses, vehicles, and cash, along with a firearm have been seized as part of a larger National Organised Crime Operation dubbed Operation Yello...
Emergency services are responding to a two-vehicle crash that has blocked State Highway 2 at Poukawa. A police spokesperson said they were alerted to the...
A stretch of State Highway 2 between Whirinaki and Tutira will be closed for two nights next month for recovery work at 3 different sites. The road, between Pa...
Council spending is coming under the microscope as the Hastings District Council as the district’s long-term Plan (LTP) is prepared. The plan sets the in...
Seventeen young people have been selected to represent Hastings’ younger residents on this year’s Hastings Youth Council, six of them returning from...
Air New Zealand has laid out what is needed for it to have regular flights directly from Napier to other regional centres without having to go through Auckland...
The Mayor of Napier has admitted that years of underinvestment in the city’s infrastructure has resulted in ratepayers now being faced with a historic pro...
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has appointed Te Wairama Munro as the Te Pou Whakarae - Group Manager, Māori Partnerships to support staff and councillors in...
A Hawke's Bay community advocate who cooked hundreds of meals a day in the months after Cyclone Gabrielle says Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) has alleged th...
Hawke's Bay Police have impounded two vehicles after reports of anti-social driving behaviours across Puketapu, Hastings. On Friday, March 1, Police received m...
Napier ratepayers are facing a proposed rates increase of 23.7 per cent – the highest ever in the Council’s history. At a Council meeting today, th...
Fire and Emergency is looking for new members for its Hawke’s Bay Local Advisory Committee (LACs). Fire and Emergency currently works with seven LACs aro...
Standing outside the old Napier courthouse on Marine Parade, Stuart and Sarah Nash have no doubt the daunting task that awaits them to turn the old building int...
Having lost its bridge in Cyclone Gabrielle, the settlement of Puketapu is set to get a new permanent bridge by late next year. The original bridge at Puketapu...
The construction of a new research and archives building, MTG Hawke’s Bay’s off-site storage facility, is now well underway. The floor will be lai...
A post-Cyclone Gabrielle project to establish community emergency hubs in rural areas is progressing well, with the latest initiative the rollout of defibrillat...