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This summer, L.A.B will take the stage at Hastings Tōmoana Showgrounds.

Meet Chase, one of the friendly pups at the Hastings District Council animal control centre, looking for their forever homes.

An ANZ Netball grant means Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngati Kahungunu ki Heretaunga can take their netball game to the next level.

AT EXACTLY THIS TIME for the past three years, our magnolia has flowered. You can probably see it from your place — wherever you live. I was seduced into buying it about seven years ago because it was smallish (The Landscaper likes that) and looked relatively mild-mannered. And I was further convinced by its name ‘Little Gem’. Perfect, I thought.

Trade analyst Tim Groser is comforting farmers that New Zealand’s “resilient” agriculture export economy has fronted up to more severe challenges than it is being exposed to now.

Colourful artwork has wrapped around an empty construction site opposite Toitoi, Hawke’s Bay Arts and Events Centre.

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Over August, farmers will have the chance to donate to the Cancer Society through their livestock sales at the Stortford Lodge Sale Yards.

Mila and the Bone Man Lauren Roche (Quentin Wilson, $38) Reviewed by Louise Ward

Hawke’s Bay schoolchildren are collecting plastic caps and metal lids as part of a new recycling initiative.

Athree-year study into the perceptions of wool has found efforts to build the industry’s sustainability credentials are transforming how millennial consumers perceive the fibre.

The Hastings Boys’ High School’s 1st XV hopes of again meeting Hamilton BHS in the Super 8 schools final ended with a loss to Hamilton in Hastings on Saturday.

For the second school holidays in a row the Health Hawke’s Bay Primary Health Rangatahi Internship, E Hao, E Pao has given secondary students hands-on experience.

Gracelands Lifestyle and Care Village residents came together to hold a month-long fundraising drive for the Hastings SPCA.

SPCA NZ says thousands of New Zealand dogs spend their lives chained up in backyards or kept in confined spaces, day and night.

Four Hawke’s Bay secondary schools have been selected for the Cadenza Choir Competition in Wanganui next week.

Applications for the second Creative Communities Scheme funding round are now open.

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Karamu High School student Lena Ormsby, 16, wowed judges for the second year in a row with her “powerful” kōrero at the Māui speech competition last month.

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The connections between waterways and the people who live in Hastings have been brought to life as part of the overall transformation of the Toitoi municipal building, which will fully reopen from August 6.

Four months of intensive work is how NZ International Taekwon-Do Federation (NZITF) regional director and coach Ben Evans describes the fundraising campaign to get his squad off to the ITF World Cup in October.

Atrade negotiator involved in the just-signed free-trade deal with the European Union says New Zealand got the best possible deal and if we had not signed now the country would have gone to the back of the queue.

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Local charity Bellyful Napier is expanding into Hastings and changing its name to Bellyful Hawke’s Bay to reflect its wider reach.

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Local tenor and finalist of the 2022 Lexus Song Quest Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono might not have won the competition, but he scooped the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation $15,000 scholarship for the singer with exceptional potential.

Get your pet to the vet. That is the message from Napier and Hastings SPCA Centre manager Joy Walker after a small scratch had devastating consequences for four-month-old domestic medium haired cat, Sparrow.

A brand-new hospice for Hawke’s Bay is getting closer to reality with fundraising efforts nosing past the $13 million mark.

Q Am I able to gift my KiwiSaver to my son for his papakāinga whare? Also, can whānau combine KiwiSavers when purchasing a home together like a husband and wife can? For example, can son and mum combine, or multiple whānau who may be purchasing together?