Tom Kitchin

Kaupapa Māori health providers in Te-Matau-a-Māui say whānau can now get immediate mental health support, instead of having to jump through hoops.

Locals in a Hawke's Bay community are devastated and angry at the SPCA's decision to close its local centre.

The city council has agreed on a 9.8 percent average increase per property over the coming year.

The Hawke's Bay District Health Board has been called racist following an internal review into how it treats Māori and Pasifika patients.

The small community of Wairoa hopes it will get a big say on what it desperately needs as the health reforms begin this week.

The review found the fund created over 8400 job and while minister Stuart Nash said it "built communities", he also admitted there were flaws.

Turbulence is brewing in Hawke's Bay with accusations the region's airport is more focused on commercial business interests than actual aviation.

Hawke's Bay councils are launching a campaign on the controversial three waters reforms, getting locals to have their say, claiming the government has not listened to communities.

Emails reveal Napier City Council bowed to pressure from anti-vaxxers, closing most of its main library earlier this year over complaints unvaccinated people couldn't use it.

Maraenui in Napier, one of the city's poorest suburbs, is in desperate need of new homes.

A group of angry East Coast farmers descended on Napier today to protest against carbon forestry, which they say is destroying their towns.

An upgrade to Hastings city centre has left some businesses at the other end of the shopping area feeling hard done by.

A survey on coastal birds in Hawke's Bay has found a doubling of the population of New Zealand dotterel, or tūturiwhatu, in the region over a decade.

A specially tailored housing project for Hastings is almost a year behind target.

Big changes will have to be made to future art deco festivals in Hawke's Bay, after two disruptive years due to Covid-19.

Hastings is getting a makeover - the city known as birthplace of the Mongrel Mob is repositioning itself as an arts and culture mecca.

Coastal communities in Hawke's Bay could be hit by high sea level rise in the future, leaving them in the lurch.

Speed limits across the entire highway network in Hawke's Bay could be dropped, as well as in parts of its bordering regions.

Locals say Tairāwhiti has had a constant hammering of bad weather - with at least five storms in the past year shutting off roads and cutting off communities.

Some East Coast towns are breathing a sigh of relief, after they escaped the worst in the latest big storm.

Storm-damaged Tairāwhiti and Hawke's Bay are bracing for the onslaught of more heavy rain as Cyclone Fili bears down on the east coast of the North Island. Audio

Hawke's Bay has consistently had one of the highest, if not the highest Covid-19 hospitalisation rates of any area in the country over recent weeks.

Māori health and social service providers in Te-Matau-a-Māui (Hawke's Bay) are joining forces to support thousands of struggling whānau to meet their basic needs as Omicron hits.

Napier's council hopes new bores will help solve the dirty brown water problems plaguing the city's taps.

Tokomaru Bay locals are demanding action from the government after their community was cut in two by last week's severe flooding.