Hawkes Bay

Rebecca Reider is the coordinator of the Organic Focus Vineyard Project that's documenting and demonstrating the realities of organic growing in three major New Zealand wine regions. Audio

Julie Chapman is the chief executive of KidsCan, which runs a Nitbusters service in addition to its provision of food and raincoats in schools. Chris Meyell is the principal at Marewa School in… Audio

Sewerage plants in the Hawkes Bay continue to pump harmful bacteria and wastewater into the Tukituki River at unacceptable levels and residents have had enough. Audio

Listening to that is Central Hawke's Bay District Council chief executive, John Freeman. Audio

Recreational river users are considering legal action against the Hawke's Bay Regional Council after it decided not to prosecute a council for pumping toxic pollutants into the Tukituki River. Audio

Recreational river users are considering taking the Hawke's Bay Regional Council to court for deciding not to prosecute a district council for pumping toxic pollutants into the Tukituki River. Audio

Radio New Zealand's reporter for the region Peter Fowler explains what he sees as the two biggest stories happening in Hawkes Bay and Gisborne. We also hear from Napier Councillor Henare O'Keefe… Audio

Seven generations of treasures are on display at a new museum, which has opened at Kahuranaki Station in Hawke's Bay. Audio

In 1993 the doors closed for the final time on Napier Prison, New Zealand's oldest penal complex, ending over a century of incarceration for inmates which included Te Kooti and Mr Asia drug syndicate… Audio

Emma Lowe went to school in Hamilton then on to study the art and science of wine making in Adelaide, Australia and then California. She's worked in many wineries around the globe. It was when she was… Audio

The case of a St John Ambulance paramedic who sexually abused women while taking them to hospital has been described by a judge as one of the worst of its type in this country. Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal has ruled the crown's refusal to pay to use Lake Waikaremoana for hydro-power generation breached of the Treaty of Waitangi. Audio

The iwi guardians of Lake Waikaremoana say a Waitangi Tribunal report paves the way to compensate for decades of Crown mis-use of the lake. Audio

Commercial over-fishing in Hawke's Bay is being blamed for a steep decline in the recreational take, a decline that is angering those on the end of a line. Audio

There are Sailability clubs dotted around the globe - nine of them are in New Zealand. Their aim is simple - to spread the joy of sailing to anyone. Sailability Hawkes Bay was the third club to be set… Audio

Dame Anne Salmond's exploration of how different Maori and European ideas about land have played out over 200 years begins with the first European settlement in the Bay of Islands and the… Audio

A report published this month estimates cycling contributes $350 billion to the European economy annually and employs more people than mining and quarrying combined. And a University of Auckland study… Audio