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REGULAR Low-cost counselling: Monday to Friday, first session free then $5-$50 at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre.

REGULAR Low-cost counselling: Monday to Friday, first session free then $5-$50 at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre.

In November, Flaxmere College celebrated 10 years since the school’s Teen Parent Unit opened.

Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery kairuruku whakatairanga marketing co-ordinator Tom Kitchin shares local art gift ideas.

Twenty-five years of Christmas magic and joy, 25 years of driving around the streets of Hastings, 25 years of hard work and 25 years of creating childhood memories.

An up-and-coming artist sent to prison for dealing drugs has had his jail term quashed and a home detention sentence imposed instead.

There are no freedom camping spots at Waimarama Beach — but an iwi leader says that doesn’t stop campers “doing their business wherever”.

Your local community newspaper — in your letterbox every second Wednesday and on your device now!

Three years, five houses and almost 50 students through the programme, Hastings Boys’ High School building academy has taken off quickly, giving young men a boost in their trades careers while building houses for those in need through Kāinga Ora.

When thinking about the pillars of health, physical practices usually are top of mind.

As our busy year is coming to an end, it is an opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved in Heretaunga Hastings over the past 12 months.

The past few weeks have been full of many lasts for me: my last interviews, last follow-ups, last paper layouts, last community columns, the last time I took the “right” photo for a story, and now the last time I put together and sent both the Hastings Leader and Napier Courier community papers to the printers.

In just two days, a Hawke’s Bay photographer’s image of a “humble, selfless man” reached over 208,000 people and had 3800-plus interactions on Facebook.

Your local community newspaper — in your letterbox every second Wednesday and on your device now!

Whether you are starting a new job or have been working for a while, everyone has the same basic legal employment rights.

This summer, visitors to Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga — Hastings Art Gallery can immerse themselves in two new exhibitions of Toi Māori that explore contemporary storytelling.

Health and wellness influencers love to tell you, in painful detail, about their morning routines.

Born with Down syndrome, Hawke’s Bay man Hamish Gilbert has been defying stereotypes and achieved far more than many thought possible for his whole life.

Staffing hours have been cut at Havelock North’s Mary Doyle retirement village, which an aged care worker claims has been “detrimental to the residents”.

The Men Who Killed the News

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Henare O’Keefe was raised in a “tin shack, with dirt floors and no power” in the remote East Coast settlement of Ruatoria.

In the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand’s two peoples — tangata whenua and subsequent migrants — have together built an open, liberal society based on a series of social contracts. Frayed though they may sometimes be, these contracts have created a country that is distinct. This...

If Kererū School teacher Sophie Bazzard wants to get to class on time, there’s only one option.

Mei Whaitiri, who as a 13-year-old high school student became the model for the casting of the Pania of the Reef statue on Napier’s Marine Parade, died overnight.

The First Friend

REGULAR Low-cost counselling: Monday to Friday, first session free then $5-$50 at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre. Inquiries: (06) 878 5401.

Plastic bags, bottles, cans, clothing, fishing debris, appliances, and old furniture litter the Awatoto and Te Awanga coasts, leaving visitors and locals frustrated.

Hastings Mphosis Hair Studio owner-executive director Natasha (Tash) Bird says she was thrilled to place third in one of the categories at the New Zealand Hairdressing Creative Awards.

Born with Down syndrome, Hawke’s Bay man Hamish Gilbert has been defying stereotypes and achieved far more than many thought possible for his whole life.