Anusha Bradley

People in rural parts of Central Hawke's Bay are being urged to test drinking water bores as nitrate levels in some areas soar.

A new study shows nitrates at some bores are nearly twice the maximum… Audio

A New Zealand couple living in Bali say they've no choice but to "hunker down" and wait out the Covid-19 crisis on the island as attempts to return home have failed.

They say even if they could… Audio

Fourteen dementia residents in isolation in a Napier rest home will learn today if they have Covid-19.The residents and some staff were tested after being linked to a visiting cruise ship with 133… Audio

It's the first morning of New Zealand's four week lockdown in which our number one job is to stay at home to stop the spread of Covid-19.

If the message has got through there should be no one on the… Audio

A Samoan man, who prosecutors say was trafficked to New Zealand and used as a slave, has described being ordered to beat his cousin by his adoptive father, the Hastings-based Samoan chief who brought… Audio

Enough is enough.

That was the message from hundreds of residents who gathered in Flaxmere Park in Hastings last night to pray for the little boy who was horrifically beaten in his home two weeks… Audio

A Hawke's Bay school is believed to be the first in the country to join a global campaign to discourage bullying and improve the mental health of its students by doing up its loos.

They were once… Audio

It's so hot it's becoming unsafe to work. That's how unions are describing temperatures at Hawke's Bay Hospital - with staff and patients sweltering in 30 degree heat due to a lack of air… Audio

Reaction to the Prime Minister's huge spend-up on roads has been swift and mixed.

Jacinda Ardern has revealed $5.3 billion will go on building new roads and improving existing ones, with the money… Audio

Napier residents are urging the government to do more to tackle the root causes of poverty and crime that's led to an explosion of the gang population.

The pleas were made at a public meeting in… Audio

Napier residents struggling with gang violence and intimidation say they need real solutions, now.

They are urging the government to do more to tackle the root causes of poverty and crime that's lead… Audio

Every day we've been checking in on what's going on in the regions in Aotearoa and the pacific. Today for our final regional round up we're heading to the beautiful Hawkes Bay to chat to our… Audio

Police say the two bodies missing after the eruption on Whakaari/White Island may never be found but they're determined to keep searching.

They've confirmed the missing people are 40-year-old tour… Audio

Meanwhile Whakatāne fishing and tour operators are losing thousands of dollars a day due to restrictions put in place following the Whakaari White Island eruption.

As they head in what is usually… Audio

The cruise ship company, Royal Caribbean, could be sued for damages over the deaths or injuries caused by the eruption on Whakaari if their passengers bought their tickets for White Island Tours… Audio

Hawke's Bay's leaders say a new social housing package will help to reach their goal of ending homelessness within five years.

Housing Ministers Megan Woods and Nanaia Mahuta were in the region on… Audio

Ngāti Kahungunu says they've been tricked into supporting a Provincial Growth Funded water project they vehemently oppose.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council was awarded more than $30 million from the fund… Audio

Hawke's Bay hapū are at loggerheads with Wairoa District Council over the closure of a bridge which forces them to carry bodies nearly a kilometre on foot for burial at their urupā.

Patangata Bridge… Audio

The first fire safety programme in te reo Māori for children is significantly reducing the number of emergency call outs in one of Napier's most vulnerable suburbs.

Developed by a local firefighter… Video, Audio