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The conversation around farming in New Zealand can get very, very heated - sometimes to the point where it seems a bit adversarial and oversimplified Audio

The long-standing chair of Hawke's Bay Fish and Game Council has been asked to step down after an audit raised "serious concerns" about the organisation's governance. An investigation was launched… Audio

A chemical spill at Hawke's Bay Hospital caused an evacuation yesterday. A cleaning chemical, formalin, was spilled in the maternity ward and 24 people were evacuated. To explain what went wrong… Audio

The annual Cook Islands Language Week is underway with New Zealanders of Cook Islands heritage urged to speak the language to keep it alive. Audio

Hawke's Bay is being warned it could become the new Canterbury if it continues down the path of large-scale irrigation and water storage projects.

Freshwater ecologist Mike Joy issued the warning… Audio

Rugby as a career is an aspiration for many young players though it's pretty tough job and doesn't last forever. So police in Hawke's Bay have met up with members of the Magpies and Tuis squads.  Audio

In May, RNZ ran a story about families living on the breadline and their wishlist for the upcoming Budget.

A single working mother from Flaxmere, Benny Hone, wanted the government to provide more… Audio

Jason Trembath, a former top Hawke's Bay cricketer who indecently assaulted 11 women and posted an intimate photo of a passed-out woman online, has been sentenced to more than five years in jail. Audio

The case of the baby at the centre of the standoff at Hawke's Bay Hospital last month is back in the Family Court on Tuesday.

The child's 19-year-old mother refused to hand over her baby to Oranga… Audio

Thousands of dignitaries and politicians gathered inside the Sydney Opera House this afternoon to honour the life of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who died last month aged 89. Audio

There is a plan to make Napier and Hastings ratepayers pay $30 a year to protect land from sea level rise. They are the first in New Zealand to face this sort of cost.  Audio

Seventy four years ago the people of Banaba were evicted from their homeland so that its phosphate could be stripped to fertilise farms in Australia and New Zealand. Today, the Banaban artist and… Audio

Local leaders in Hawkes Bay say solutions to the region's acute housing problems can be found but they must be region specific and they need help from central government. Some 440 children and their… Audio

Fifty-five Hawke's Bay patients who were exposed to unsterilised medical equipment will have to wait until August to be certain they haven't been infected with blood-borne viruses like hepatitis B… Audio

An outbreak of swine flu has hit a group of seasonal fruit pickers in Hawke's Bay. There are two confirmed cases of swine flu and about 80 people with flu like symptoms. Hawke's Bay District Health… Audio

Rapper Tom Francis is the first independent artist in the Southern Hemisphere to release a collaboration with California rap doggfather Snoop Dogg. He speaks to Yadana Saw about their song 'Lifestyle'

Authorities are investigating the death of possibly hundreds of native eels, dumped on a river bank in Hawke's Bay. During the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's routine flood control work, diggers… Video, Audio

Pipfruit growers in Hawke's Bay who feared their fruit being left to rot have welcomed the Government's declaration of a seasonal labour shortage. The move will allow some visitor visa-holders to take… Video, Audio

Sterile Sciences Association president Shelagh Thomas says the revelation about inadequately sterilised surgical equipment in Hawke's Bay is "one of the worst things that can happen in a hospital."… Video, Audio