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Health authorities are investigating how unsterilised surgical instruments may have been used on 55 patients in the Hawke's Bay, exposing them to potentially deadly diseases. Dr Colin Hutchison from… Audio

Our regional series is moving north and east today. The Hawke's Bay is coming in for a big 2019 and RNZ correspondent Anusha Bradley joins us now from Napier to talk a year of water on farms, water in… Audio

The pip fruit industry want the government to allow travellers to pick fruit without needing work visas as a labour shortage could mean summer harvests are lost. Audio

14-year-old Haami Hanara has been found guilty of murdering 40-year-old Kelly Donner after stabbing him four times during a fight over a torch. Video, Audio

If you live in the Hawke's Bay or Gisborne, you are among the most likely to be killed by a gun in New Zealand. Figures released by the police show the police's Eastern region has the highest rate of… Audio

Hawke's Bay apple growers saying a looming worker shortage is keeping them up at night - and that's despite more workers from the Pacific being brought in to help. An extra 1,750 workers nationwide… Audio

Farmers and businesses in Central Hawke's Bay could run out of water this summer as parts of the Waipawa and Tukituki Rivers are already bone dry. And they're worried that could send them bust. Audio

Members of the Hawke's Bay Fish and Game Council are being investigated for possible conflicts of interest and breaches of the Wildlife Act. An investigation has been launched after a complaint was… Audio

Health officials in Hawke's Bay are trying to curb the high rate of bowel cancer deaths among Pasifika people by encouraging them to take the national bowel screening test when they get one in the… Audio

Health officials in Hawke's Bay are trying to curb the high rate of bowel cancer deaths among Pasifika people by encouraging them to take the national bowel screening test when they get one in the… Audio

The late Stephen Hawking was an acclaimed theoretical physicist and considered to be one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University… Audio

A Hawke's Bay businessman, Simon Lusk, is taking the regional council to the Environment Court over its failure to regulate feedlots he says are polluting the district. Mr Lusk says the practice… Audio

One year down and another year and a bit to go. A year ago this month strengthening work began on the grand old Hawke's Bay Opera House, after 80 percent of submissions to the Hastings District… Audio

Five years ago Pitsch Leiser abandoned Auckland for Hawke's Bay. He found it had everything - everything except a functioning Opera House and an arts festival. So he rolled up his sleeves and started… Audio

A group of hapu, left virtually landless by the crown, have come to the end of a long battle to finalise their treaty settlement. More than four hundred people from Heretaunga Tamatea in the Hawkes… Audio

Locals in the seaside villages of Haumoana and Te Awanga, near Cape Kidnappers, say their bore has never had any issues so the decision to chlorinate their water is a complete "overreaction" to the… Video, Audio

A proposed bed tax on Airbnb rentals is causing sleepless nights in Hawke's Bay. Hawke's Bay Tourism is considering introducing a levy on the 600 homes up for rent on the website, after the regional… Audio

A proposal to slash $1.8 million from Hawke's Bay Tourism's funding has the local industry worried it could ultimately cost the region hundreds of millions of dollars. Video, Audio

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died on Wednesday aged 76. Professor Hawking was diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's… Audio

The Immigration Minister is open to settling refugees in the Hawke's Bay as growers warn they're unable to fill hundreds of new jobs, meaning this year's harvest might go largely unpicked, as well as… Video, Audio