Hawkes Bay

An emergency shelter is on the Budget wishlist for a Hawke's Bay couple who help feed the homeless. Audio

Heavy rain throughout the North Island has made underfoot conditions difficult for all North Island farmers, while in the South Island North Otago could do with rain. Audio

A team of NIWA marine scientists investigates methane seeps that bubble up from the seabed off the North Island's east coast. Audio

Environmentalists say the Hawke's Bay Regional Council is being irresponsible in continuing to develop the 275 million dollar Ruataniwha Dam when it has no plan to comply with the resource consents it… Audio

The Hastings District Council must pay 65 thousand dollars to the family of a small boy run over and killed in a park by a tractor mower. Audio

Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers. Audio

A Hastings dentist warns a tsunami of baby boomers will require major dental work in the next ten years. Audio

On New Zealand Society, find out how one Kiwi 'chick' flew home to help another on its way. Audio

Founder of whanau-based gym Patu Aotearoa in Hawkes Bay, which won the People's Choice Award in the Akina Foundation's social enterprise accelerator programme. Audio

Listening to that was Hawkes Bay Regional Council chairman Fenton Wilson. Audio

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council has voted to allow its investment company HBRIC to borrow 2-million-dollars to keep the Ruataniwha Dam project alive. Audio

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council has voted to allow its investment company HBRIC to borrow 2-million-dollars to keep the Ruataniwha Dam project alive. Audio

Any injured marine mammals found in the wild are now likely to be put down after the final closure of Hawkes Bay's famed Marineland Park. Audio

A prisoner is a serious condition in hospital after being attacked by other inmates in Hawke's Bay Prison. Audio

The police say every effort was made to save a man who died during an altercation with officers. Audio

The police say the 53-year-old man died last night after being called to reports of an attack on the man's parents in their Hastings home earlier in the evening. Audio

Shane Bayley is the acting director of Civil Defence Emergency Management. Audio

Civil Defence is preparing for the arrival of Cyclone Pam on Sunday night which it warns could be one of the worst cyclones in recorded history to hit New Zealand. Audio

Napier's mayor is livid with the the Local Government Commission for distributing what he calls an 'erroneous pro-amalgamation' pamphlet. Audio

Sometimes it takes a leap of faith to go it alone and start up your own business - and other times all it might take is a twenty-foot shipping container filled with thousands of swords, daggers and… Audio