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It's officially the first day of summer and according to Niwa, warm weather and high winds are on the menu for the rest of the season. During an El Niño, New Zealand summers tends to mean strong… Audio

Northern Hawke's Bay and Tai Rawhiti are back in cleanup mode after heavy rain fell steadily over the weekend. The region's infrastructure bruised and battered from previous storms, and each downpour… Audio

Wairoa's Civil Defence controller says some of the slips caused by the weekend's heavy rain are worse than those after Cyclone Gabrielle. 

Communities throughout northern Hawke's Bay and Te… Audio

When Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke's Bay in February, it flooded homes, devastated communities and destroyed farm infrastructure.

Less visibly - it also damaged local fisheries.

Commercial fishers… Audio

As the Hawke's Bay sun begins to dry out the silt piles left by Cyclone Gabrielle, the dust problem is becoming so bad, some residents are leaving their homes. There's still up to 1.5 million cubic… Audio

A Hawke's Bay wine and food festival is set to bring dozens of the region's best hospitality businesses together on the banks of the Tukituki River.

Hawke's Bay Harvest was set to make its debut in… Audio

Tens of thousands of people flocked to Hawke's Bay at the weekend for Robbie Williams concerts at the Mission Estate Winery.

The two concerts were a huge draw to a region still reeling from the… Audio

A Hawke's Bay school community that lost its classrooms in Cyclone Gabrielle has been flooded again - this time out of its temporary home. 

On Tuesday night, heavy rain caused floods, road closures… Audio

Residents in northern Hawkes Bay are mopping up once again after a night of very heavy rain caused flooding around the region.

In Nūhaka, north of Wairoa, three homes were evacuated, and three people… Audio

Flooding and slips on the main highways north and south of the Wairoa have cut off the town overnight.

The road to Waikaremoana, State Highway 38 is also closed on Wednesday morning.

We're also… Audio

A population of a rare lizards has been found in a back garden in Central Hawke's Bay. It's the first time the Hawke's Bay Skink has been found in the area, with the only other known population inside… Audio

A dinner club providing meals for Hawke's Bay families unable to return to their cyclone damaged homes, is giving its guests more than just a feed.

For those living in temporary accommodation like… Audio

Gisborne and Hawke's Bay have three new National MPs, after the previously Labour-held seats turned blue in the election.

There's Catherine Wedd for Tukituki, Katie Nimon for Napier, and Dana… Audio

Thieves pinching valuable copper cable from the Hawkes bay electricity network are at risk of getting deadly shocks. The local distributor Unison says there's been a massive spike in thefts with… Video, Audio

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council is warning if more recovery funding doesn't come soon efforts to clear the immense level of silt in the region could stall.

So far, around 900,000 cubic metres of… Audio

Volunteers are still travelling to Hawke's Bay from around the North Island to help with the cleanup, eight months on from Cyclone Gabrielle. Temporary housing requirements mean paid accommodation is… Audio

Players from the Hawke's Bay Rugby team have yet been disciplined after their Ranfurly Shield celebrations on Saturday night, which left the coveted log of wood broken, and photographed with white… Audio

A normally pristine Hawkes Bay beach is still blanketed with slash following Cyclone Gabrielle, but there's no money to clean the wood debris away. Waikare Beach, a regional gem, is inundated with… Video, Audio

Once again New Zealand Rugby is having to deal with a case of players behaving badly.

The prized Ranfurly Shield is in bits, and a player from the winning Hawke's Bay Magpies has been charged with… Audio

Hawke's Bay Magpies' Ranfurly Shield win has been marred by after game antics - after a photo emerged showing the shield broken in two with small piles of white powder on half of it. New Zealand Rugby… Video, Audio

Waipawa businesses fear the partial closure of the main road through the small central hawkes bay town could kill them. The say they only found out last week that the North bound lane of State Highway… Video, Audio

Hawkes Bay tenor Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono has just won the prestigious IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. He's back in the Bay to sing the role of Tamino in a special concert performance of… Video, Audio