Hawkes Bay

East Coast-based Kapa Haka group Whāngārā mai Tawhiti has won Te Matatini 2017.

Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti pushed themselves to a new level during their award winning performance at the Matatini kapa haka competition, the team's leader says.

A man has appeared in court after a woman was sexually assaulted in a supermarket carpark in Hawke's Bay.

A man has appeared in court, charged over the Waitangi Day murder of a man in a small coastal town in Hawke's Bay.

Thousands of people have filled Sports Park in Hastings for Te Matatini National Kapa Haka competition.

Waimarama residents are being told they can drink their water again without boiling it for the first time since last weekend.

Hundreds of volunteers are working hard behind the scenes as the second day of national kapa haka festival Te Matatini gets under way.

The government has ruled out a law change to allow victims of the Havelock North water contamination to make an ACC claim.

Hundreds of excited kapa haka performers have strutted their stuff on the first day of biennial national competition Te Matatini.

A decision on a support fund for people whose health is still being affected by the Havelock North water poisoning has been deferred.

A man left with a rare brain disorder from the Havelock North water contamination disaster has called a proposal for financial help "not far away from an insult". Audio

A record number of kapa haka teams will compete at the Te Kahu o Te Amorangi Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival in Hastings.

Despite preliminary tests coming back with no sign of more E-coli, a boil water notice will remain in place for Waimarama residents.

Residents in the Hawke's Bay coastal town of Waimarama are being told to boil their water, after tests today showed low levels of E-coli bacteria in the public water supply.

A fire which has burned through 130 hectares of land in rural Hawke's Bay is now under control, the fire service says. Video