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Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 02/06/2026

📢 Mia Cribb was inspired by prisms and pastel colours to create her award-winning look.

'Something really fun and exciting': Prism-inspired hair earns top award

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 02/06/2026

📢 Rainfall in Napier, Hastings and CHB last month was less than one-third of May average.

Dry winter could follow a dry Bay May

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 02/06/2026

📢 EIT, which regained independence in January, has marked its 50th anniversary.

'Thousands of lives shaped through education': EIT unveils sculpture for 50th anniversary

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 02/06/2026

📢 Street Eats is being relaunched, bringing Market St to life every Wednesday in June.

Street Eats, cash prizes, free parking day: Napier CBD’s bid to get people into the city this winter

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 01/06/2026

📢 Council officers, accompanied by police, carried out a six-hour search warrant.

'Trying to evict 50 or 60 tenants': Council crackdown on well-known lodge heads to mediation

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 01/06/2026

📢 More than 800 people joined the inaugural Glow Orange Night Walk in Napier.

Hundreds light up Napier waterfront for Cranford Hospice night walk

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 01/06/2026

📢 About 320 players competed for more than $10,000 in prizes at Toitoi Hastings.

'Bridge addicts': 320 players vie for $10k prizes in Hastings

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 01/06/2026

📢 Firefighters attended a 'well-involved' vacant house fire for about five hours last night.

Rural Hawke's Bay township has second suspicious fire in less than a week

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 01/06/2026

📢 Up to 200mm of rain is possible in Northland, while Kaitāia has already had 30mm.

'Use best judgment': Heavy rain falling with more to come as holidaymakers head home

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026

📢 "I'm surprised how much room there still is for the dogs."

Farmers put crush protection devices to the test

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026

📢 'It’s not about the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.'

'I just love coaching': Netball devotion earns King’s Birthday honour

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026

📢 Wayne Bradshaw has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM). 👉[Ad] AI video generation service powered by Veo. Try it at veo.photonmark.com

Age Concern leader honoured for decades helping older people

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026

📢 When Keith Bone got the email, he thought it was a scam.

Lifetime in swimming recognised with KSM

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026

📢 Honey is a much-loved volunteer who has been helping Hawke's Bay sport for 40 years.

'Sport wouldn't be sport without volunteers': Aunty Honey recognised in King's Birthday Honours

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 30/05/2026

📢 Macy Gray will perform in Napier on October 18, her first NZ show in a decade.

'Genuine music icon': Macy Gray to headline Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 30/05/2026

📢 Only a portrait of Jesus was left untouched in a fire that destroyed the church.

Seven months on, a chapel sits in ruins as Te Hauke waits for answers

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 30/05/2026

📢 'My granddaughter is 15 months old, and she’s not going to remember me.'

'Comedy of errors' in cancer care: ‘They said sorry, but that’s not going to give me my life back’

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 CCTV monitoring costs in the CBD will be funded through general rates, council decides.

Napier council backs down on extra rates charges for CBD and rural residential homes

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 OPINION: The 5-year-old Zed gelding is trained by Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal.

John Jenkins: Hastings owned and trained Kwanza adds to family success

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 OPINION: A better-than-expected set of numbers in the Budget, but trouble lurks beneath. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

Nick Stewart: A Budget built on heroic assumptions

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 'The poor old sav has had a bad rap over the years.'

‘As good as any snag’: Saveloy savant defends the red sausage

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 New Zealand's top amateur rugby league players will play in Hawke's Bay in September.

National rugby league tournaments coming to Hawke’s Bay

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 Rachel Law and Nala, of Whangamōmona, turned over the field on the fifth and last day.

Last to qualify, first to the title: Woman wins national sheep dog trials

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 The Government has granted $50,000 for a feasibility study on the site.

Government invests $50,000 for grower group's McCain factory takeover bid

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 'As a new mum, you shouldn’t be forced to leave the hospital when you’re not ready.'

'Mothers matter': Tukituki MP's delight as Budget funding granted for her postnatal bill

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 Highs of up to 20C will bring warm, sunny days across the region.

Long weekend stunner: Hawke's Bay the place to be this King's Birthday weekend

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 29/05/2026

📢 A 4km stretch, costing up to $415m, is the next big project on Hawke's Bay highways.

Waikare Gorge highway realignment takes next steps – destination 2030

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 OPINION: Language evolves, though parents often struggle to keep up.

Wyn Drabble: ‘Like’ is the duct tape of modern speech

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 'It's a shame at our time of life we have to start again,' says a tenant in his 90s.

Residents given five months to leave council villages they say are 'home to us'

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 'Leon has just overcome adversity after adversity. He has never given up.'

‘It never defined me’: Para paddler aiming for world podium in Singapore

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 OPINION: 136,000 truck and trailer loads of soil moving through our rivers every year.

Sophie Siers: Could your land be contributing to flood risk?

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 The 286ha Hastings farm will open next year and aims to blend hunting and conservation.

Government green light for new game bird preserve in Hawke’s Bay

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 While details remain light, Hawke's Bay Hospital has been promised funding for upgrades.

Budget 2026: Hawke’s Bay Hospital set for 'major' upgrade

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 Organisers say an 'unforeseen' licensing issue has forced them to cancel the Napier show.

Cease and desist order sees Pink Floyd tribute show axed at last minute

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 Assets worth just over $10m, with $940,000 of annual costs, will be transferred.

Napier City Council set to take over stormwater management from regional council

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 28/05/2026

📢 Not even the Sky Tower is the limit for Kaitlyn Merritt.

Four caesareans, 1100 stairs, 25kg of gear, and a medal: Napier mum’s Sky Tower feat

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 A logging truck and a car collided near the roundabout at the entrance to Flaxmere.

Serious crash blocks State Highway 2 near Hastings, one injured

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 McCain says the site is already listed for sale and decommissioning has begun.

McCain Foods declines mayors’ request to pause factory closure

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 State Highway 38 was shut as firefighters fought to control the blaze. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

Suspicious fire in rural home in Hawke's Bay

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 'This is one of the greatest attractions to Dannevirke that no one knows about.'

'One of the greatest attractions': Fencers and farmers want to save town's threatened deer park

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 Takapau Community Health Centre is on the cusp of securing a modern modular clinic.

Takapau health centre to shift out of 115-year-old building into new modular digs

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 Under clear blue Hawke's Bay skies, 500 dogs and their salt-of-the-earth owners converge.

'I don’t smile, just when I win': A day at the NZ sheep dog trials

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 The committee said shifting the alcohol aisle would not reduce exposure.

Flaxmere Woolworths gains approval to sell alcohol at new Flaxmere supermarket

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 27/05/2026

📢 Loren Cudd couldn't help but crack up as she worked her way through the cards with Izayah.

' A is for Ass': Cheeky surprise for toddler using Temu flashcards to learn words

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 Victory over Island Bay United could lift them to at least second in Central League.

‘Absolutely proud’: Rovers captain finally becomes a Kiwi as title race heats up

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 Marewa School posted about 7.30am that it was in lockdown. 👉 Latest AI bot for broader world news and analysis powered by OpenClaw

Cordons lifted around Napier school - NZ Herald

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 One person was freed from the vehicle by firefighters and flown to hospital.

Two injured after car hits fence and tree in rural Central Hawke's Bay

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 A national women's basketball rep at 17, a Bay legend is inducted into Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame recognition after 40 years of basketball

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 Drinking from a yard glass is commonly perceived as a ’21st birthday Kiwi tradition’.

'High risk': The country pub, the yard glass and the terse email from a licensing inspector

Hawke's Bay News @hawkesbay.nzcow.com · 26/05/2026

📢 Council plan to change how it charges for roading is 'unsupported by evidence', firm says.

Unison warns Napier council: Your plan could lead to higher power and phone bills