Tom Kitchin

Why was it such a watershed moment for a former All Black to come out as gay?

The cyclone may be gone, but the damage remains. Locals tell The Detail their stories of picking up the pieces.

How did a Kiwi pilot get caught up in a rebel group's demands for West Papua's independence from Indonesia?

There are high hopes that improvements made to this year's Census will result in a better turnout than 2018.

Roads up and down the country have taken a hammering after a summer of storms - who pays the repair bill?

The pandemic smashed the international education sector - but are foreign students returning to our shores?

Who is Carmel Sepuloni - and why was she Labour's pick for deputy prime minister?

A project in Tairāwhiti is one of two in the country piloting ways to help men talk about the tough stuff that's well away from the confines of a pub.

The National Aquarium, run by the local council, has been in the spotlight for its degradation.

Setting a Māori birthing unit up was a key recommendation of a critical review into racial discrimination in the region's maternity services.

While some are excited Hollywood might be coming to Hawke's Bay, others want to shout 'cut!'.

The local Labour MP and mayor in Hastings have expressed strong concerns to the government over the location of a new kind of remand facility proposed by iwi and police.

A large group of Napier residents has filed a judicial review against the city council because of their anger over a housing development.

Victims who experienced an onslaught of water through their homes and farms accused a forestry company of acting like "cowboys".

The mysterious destruction of an old biodiversity hut in Te Urewera while a court injunction is in place has highly concerned some locals and conservationists.

Community groups in Gisborne have had enough of a spate of violence, so they are trying to think of new ways to stop it.

There is a big push to stop people from swimming at the dangerous beach in Napier's city centre.

The controversial sale of the publicly owned electricity lines company in Gisborne would leave the region in a "precarious" state, a councillor says.

A plan to build nearly 700 homes on a Napier flood plain is being attacked by a local councillor as making no sense.

An opening date has finally been confirmed for the Hawke's Bay Airport's forecourt, more than a year after it was due to be finished.

Two years on from a freak flood, Paul Matthews has been told his severely damaged home needs to be demolished.

A radiologist at Hawke's Bay Hospital failed to pick up a woman's lung cancer, which officials say was only a symptom of wider problems at the hospital.

An iwi group in Wairoa has come up with what it's calling an innovative kaupapa Māori way to help solve the town's housing crisis.

Police in Napier say they tried to get a vehicle to stop just minutes before it crashed, killing a young woman.

An iwi plan to convert a Hastings lodge into accommodation for whānau battling the justice system has run into opposition from the local council.