Stories by Linda Hall

Havelock North residents were not notified about the consent given to Terry Longley and Sons funeral home for the Crematorium.

Wooden barriers along Napier's Marine Parade are preventing fishermen from accessing the beach.

Many staff, some with decades of service, had been told their positions may no longer exist.

The project follows a four-year search by the council for the right development partner.

Minister for Regulation David Seymour has written in support of a watercress seller who after 30 years was told he needed to register to sell, at a cost of $619.

Early estimates to replace the damage on Napier's Marine Parade came to $20,000

"All I want to do is look after family and make the community happy," the Hasting man says.

A Napier man running on the lime paths in Ahuriri saw up to 30 cows in the water, about half a kilometre from a popular swim spot.

Timber barriers are appearing along Napier's Marine Parade, Napier, to keep vehicles off the beach.

With local elections just months away, women around the country in local government have been sharing their stories of online abuse.

Landowners whose homes were submerged by Cyclone Gabrielle say it is unfair to force them to pay the exact same rates as they were before the destruction.

A tyre specialist says the damage caused to dozens of cars from driving through roadworks in Napier is the worst he has ever seen, and there is "no solution" for...

Rodger Shaw reckons he has got one of the best jobs going.

Hawke's Bay Fish & Game said it was working closely with Napier City Council and Hawke's Bay Regional Council to collect any more distressed or dead birds.

A crashed car left sitting on council land is now in a "precarious position" after months of vandalism, a worried property owner says.

Eels hauled up from a stream during digger work wound up dumped on the ground at a compost facility, infuriating a local environmentalist.

Wiki Hauraki's land is the direct path of a proposed spillway. Her message is stop the grandstanding.

First-term councillor Marcus Buddo announced over the weekend he would run for mayor on a platform focused on financial responsibility.

It says the closure will keep the proposed rates increase for Napier ratepayers below 7.9 percent.

Napier City Council has thrown its support behind the agency, which will have its Hawke's Bay Regional Council funding axed from June.

Mediterranean fanworm and the clubbed tunicate were the most common marine pests in Hawke's Bay.

The Category 3 land looked like a good deal - at first.

A Hastings golf club has requested a change to the Hastings District Plan to rezone land in Bridge Pā.

A memorial service will be held in Napier a day earlier this year so more people can attend.

"I live in Cornwall Rd but in the post it said 'Pornwall Rd'. I just thought it was a joke," one local said.