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Doug Laing
Senior reporter
Doug Laing is a senior reporter for Hawke's Bay Today
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A weekend of fractiousness and also warmth as protests disrupt Hawke's Bay's calm.
"It's very fluid, so we'll adapt. We have to find ways to stay open."
Where All Blacks dreams are made - Ross Shield schoolboys rugby in Hastings next week.
Kelvin Pl met a wrecking ball 10 years ago. Solving the shortage "still a fair way off".
Competitor steps in as rooms affected by water damage, and fire damage in the roof.
Retirement village care centre evacuated in second fire alert
Callsign Mav is set for its last race in New Zealand. Does $5.2m of Aussie riches await?
119 year-history flipped on its head: "If you can't win in 80 you don't win the Shield".
Another month of below-average rainfall in Hawke's Bay and another week of sun, sun, sun
It's the match of the tour most remembered because of the barbed wire enclosing the rugby.
Te Awa Primary principal Tim Van Zyl has long feared the hazards around his school.
Once it snowed. On Saturday it was chilly, but at least it was fine.
Off-road parking cost triples in Hastings, and regional council rates increase 19.5%.
From his HB haunts, he followed in footsteps of legendary wartime artist Peter McIntyre.
Three truck crashes on Hawke's Bay highways in a week.
The van turned across the road to the cafe. The truck and wine tanker was behind it.
The goal was $1 billion in export earnings by 2022. Now it's $2 billion by 2030.
"They trust me because they know I've been through it all. I feel validated."
"We have to treat this like Covid: Track and trace."
The two-storey building of shops and apartments goes under the hammer on May 28.
Sheldon Eden-Whaitiri is a breath of whistling fresh air.
Council takes a spray from cycleway users over underpass water problems.
Everything Neil Finn did on stage was smooth - even his reprimand of a chair thrower.
November flood victims still unable to return home as Easter approaches.
Council will also look at its own relationships with gaming funding.
One Napier bar has five of the 'off' kegs. It won't harm anyone who drinks it, Tui says.
Napier's in festival mode, even without the festival.
The air show is all on, above the city, Marine Parade, the ocean and the airport.
16-year-old Taradale pupil with barely two years' experience stuns the sport's followers.
The Bay View service station fire was accidentally started by a cigarette lighter.
Pro-Flaxmere sign a 'cheap shot' at Maraenui?
Out of quarantine and straight into work - the Welsh boys love it.
Just six races, less than 50 horses, but Racing HB believes it's still backing a winner.
Gang says they were within their rights to use the Te Mata Peak carpark for a ceremony.
The three of seven hapu argue the Crown breached treaty principles.
April is still the adjusted target for reopening the Napier-Wairoa railway line.
People running, man bashed, family mourns.
Spectre of notorious child abduction and killing raised cleared former suspect's appeal.
Courts and Oranga Tamariki ponder what to do with a 12-year-old robbery accused.
The birds will find other places in the colonies at Cape Kidnappers, experts say.
Port Ahuriri School seeks licence to continue liquor sales at festival on school grounds.
Unprovoked attack broke sympathetic officer's eye socket and jaw.
Home detention for man who met 15-year-old through website
Mother sends money to husband in jail despite what he did to her daughter.
He drove at 103 km/h in the city, refused to stop and crashed, injuring a police officer.
A watch on ATMs showed there was a need for people to have personal alarms.
Former MP swam in front the seismic exploration vessel Amazon holding a protest banner.
Victim stabbed nine times, kicked and stomped and left to die - just for the car.
It's taken seven months, but thing are coming right on the farm at Patoka.
A van theft and a chippies heist at a corner store mar weekend in Napier.
Destruction wrought by Cyclone Gita won't deter events at the Kaikoura A&P Show.
Pierre-Antoine Paludet will by late today have been missing six days.
Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has made an assured start to her record bid.
Body found in a ditch on a roadside north of Napier.
Hawke's Bay farming and rugby communities mourn loss of local hero.