Hawke's Bay

This year's Art Deco Festival in Napier has been cancelled for the first time in its history, due to Covid-19.

Three men will spend about four years in jail after bashing a man and to leaving him to die in Hastings.

One general manager told RNZ he is only sleeping four hours a night these days as he worries about the future with few fruit pickers available.

Hawke's Bay has had a spate of suspicious scrub fires with about seven blazes in two weeks, local firefighters say.

State Highway 51 near Napier has reopened after a fatal motorcycle crash.

Two brand new artificial reefs have been built off the coast of Napier to enhance marine life and provide more space for fishing.

People in Napier are being urged to stay out of the Ahuriri Estuary after 1000 litres of hydochloric acid spilled onto a nearby street.

Wairoa in Hawke's Bay had a 63.5 percent increase in median house prices, by far the highest growth rate of any district in the country.

A 99-year-old remembers the struggles in the aftermath of the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931 that shattered and destroyed much of the region.

Police are investigating the killing of a horse and suspicious shed fire in Hawke's Bay - two incidents thought to be gang-related.

Residents who live by an empty industrial yard in Hastings heard nothing before police were called to a death nearby this morning.

A Hawke's Bay council review has found the region has too many business support groups trying to do the same thing.

Hawke's Bay health officials are urging people to turn on the Bluetooth function of their Covid Tracer app ahead of a major concert today.

Helen Howard and Anton Hakkaart and their two young children have taken upon themselves to tackle the climate crisis head on, one small step at a time.

The region is renowned for its wine, but another drink is proving popular in Hawke's Bay this summer.

A group lobbying for a controversial bike park in a small Hawke's Bay town was upset the community had been informally consulted about the plan without their knowledge.

A woman who watched a Napier petrol station go up in flames says it was engulfed in minutes after a container of petrol in a vehicle was ignited by a cigarette lighter.

A landowner aiming to block the use of 1080 to control possums that may have spread Bovine tuberculosis in Hawke's Bay has lost his claim in the Māori Land Court.

Two people were killed in farm accidents yesterday.

A little blue penguin is back in the wild after recovering from serious injuries.