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Kennedy Park Resort General Manager David Afallo said Covi-19 meant the resort went from fully-booked to

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Local Focus: Napier resort to grow but rates to rise with relief for some

8 May, 2020 10:27am
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Some people "can still afford to pay their rates". Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Work on Ryman Healthcare's $100 million Havelock North development is slow to restart thanks to new Covid-19 regulations affecting the whole industry.

BUSINESS

Back to work on Ryman's Havelock North retirement village

4 May, 2020 10:28am
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Covid-19 brings more red tape for construction industry. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Beaches popular level 3 destination

1 May, 2020 12:33pm
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Surfies, kids and parents all glad to be at the beach. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Locus Focus: Top chef orders takeaways

25 Apr, 2020 2:36pm
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St Georges becomes a fast food joint. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Plant & Food Principal Scientist Stuart Tustin said while huge productivity gains from a new orchard system had doubters

BUSINESS

Local Focus: Apple orchards' big leap

22 Apr, 2020 10:35am
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Apple productivity makes a giant leap. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled a rededicated mauri stone at Toitoi.

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Local Focus: Toitoi's mauri stone and Jacinda's crush on Hawke's Bay

14 Apr, 2020 9:32am
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A Toitoi ceremony revealed Jacinda's crush on HB. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Wairoa forestry 'scaring the hell out of this community'

6 Apr, 2020 9:35am
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Wairoa's forestry fear. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Consumers on the Unison Network should expect lower power bills.

BUSINESS

Power bill cuts for Napier, Hastings, Rotorua and Taupō

1 Apr, 2020 12:15pm
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Electricity price drop for Unison Network. Made with funding by NZ On Air.

People are being told to not drive to recreational areas.

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Local Focus: Can I drive to the park?

29 Mar, 2020 2:59pm
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Don't drive to the park says CD Emergency Management. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: See how Covid-19 has changed Hawke's Bay

26 Mar, 2020 6:26pm
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Peer pressure and a desire to save lives is all we need. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Cruise Ship Ruby Princess was found to have four coronavirus cases on board.

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Napier mayor calls for calm over Ruby Princess cruise ship visit on March 15

22 Mar, 2020 2:33pm
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Napier mayor urges calm after Ruby Princess cruise. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Native plants instead of sprays

20 Mar, 2020 10:40am
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Villa Maria is trialling under-vine natives. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The apple industry reports strong demand for NZ apples overseas despite coronavirus.

BUSINESS

Local Focus: Apple industry immune to virus

18 Mar, 2020 2:58pm
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Apple industry says fruit selling well overseas. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lindsay Farm manager Michael Ashton (left) admin and marketing manager Angela Brooks and owner Paul Ashton are hoping to escape prosecution for breaking MPI's rules on the sale of raw milk. Photo / Supplied

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Local Focus: Defiant organic farmers await prosecution

11 Mar, 2020 9:12am
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Lindsay Farm is bending or breaking Government rules. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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The sprinkler bandits of Hastings

6 Mar, 2020 8:53am
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Residents breaking bylaws in Hastings. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Waipaoa Station Farm Cadets take in the sights at the East Coast Farming Expo.

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Local Focus: Eastside expo a 'boutique' experience

28 Feb, 2020 4:01pm
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The East Coast Farming Expo's fifth event. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Local Focus: She sells sunflowers in the summer sun

26 Feb, 2020 10:06am
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Sunflowers are a blooming business in Hawke's Bay. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

PROPERTY

Local Focus: Napier demolition the largest 'in living memory'

25 Feb, 2020 10:51am
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Napier Civic Building to be demolished. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: How to have a blast in Hastings

16 Feb, 2020 9:00am
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Bigger and brighter art comes to Hastings. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Waitangi Day a unified success

6 Feb, 2020 7:50pm
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Iwi-hosted Hawke's Bay Waitangi Day celebrations. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Thanks to Santa, Danica Bryant is playing Elton John.

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Local Focus: Santa set Danica on road to Elton gig

30 Jan, 2020 2:58pm
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Thanks to Santa, Danica Bryant is playing Elton John. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Te Awa School regularly practises its tsunami evacuation drill to Napier Hill.

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15,000 people in Napier would 'have difficulty' escaping tsunami - GNS

26 Jan, 2020 12:40pm
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"Based on the modelling, 15,000 would have difficulty". Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Napier's recycling programme a crate success

24 Jan, 2020 9:26am
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Limit of three crates each leads to imaginative filling. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: The lake getting weired

27 Dec, 2019 10:46am
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Saving Whakakī, the lake that's sometimes an estuary. Made with Funding from NZ On Air.

Silke, Nina, Luca and Tim on their recently sold yacht. Photo / Time Whittaker

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The Hawke's Bay family who've packed up their lives to sail the world

21 Dec, 2019 6:00am
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The Whittakers have sold everything to sail the world. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Trelinnoe Park falls into passionate hands

13 Dec, 2019 11:20pm
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"Gardening is the only passion that increases with age". Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Colonial blooms in the garden of Otane's Chawton House prompted owner Karen Mooney to call the Rose Hunters.

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Local Focus: Hunters armed with secateurs

29 Nov, 2019 12:14pm
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Rose Hunters are saving our gardening history. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Whakakī Lake Trust chairman Richard Brooking hopes a

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Local Focus: The broken bridge of Whakakī that no one owns

28 Nov, 2019 12:26pm
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Closure requires mourners to walk 700m to the urupā. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Napier stormwater citizens have their say

21 Nov, 2019 12:22pm
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Public see pros and cons to new bylaw. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Access closed to popular DOC campsite for 12 years

18 Nov, 2019 2:21pm
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Calls to open new campsite at Jock Sutton. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Local Focus: The upper cut of business success

13 Nov, 2019 1:55pm
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Trading blows for Bo's Mow's. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Six-year-old Archie Foley's success battling autism after a diet change has shifted the way his father, a former Federated Farmers Hawke's Bay president, runs his home farm.

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Local Focus: Six-year-old Archie's autistic diet shifts the family farm

12 Nov, 2019 1:37pm
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"Within three days he got his eye contact back". Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Bike battle at Havelock North

24 Oct, 2019 9:45am
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Mountain bikers aren't welcome in Tainui Reserve. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: The big Napier wastewater fear

17 Oct, 2019 8:27am
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Napier citizens asked to not wash or flush. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: The Governor-General's cloaked mystery

14 Oct, 2019 3:00pm
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Government House has a mysterious kahu kiwi. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Why the poor voter turnout?

10 Oct, 2019 5:53pm
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Why is voter turnout so low for local body elections? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Environment Centre Hawke's Bay is keeping toxic waste and recyclables out of the landfill.

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Local Focus: Do the right e-thing

6 Oct, 2019 7:42pm
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Old and new televisions are now recyclable. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Hawke's Bay Hospital is the largest single jewel in the crown of the District Health Board. Photo / Warren Buckland

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Local Focus: Crowded field for Hawke's Bay DHB election

30 Sep, 2019 10:41am
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The Hawke's Bay DHB election has a record field. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Mike Glazebrook's dams 'first on the list

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Local Focus: Two dams on offer to Heretaunga

26 Sep, 2019 1:01pm
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Heretaunga Plains water storage scheme. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Make Napier great again, says mayoral candidate

20 Sep, 2019 2:22pm
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He says Napier needn't worry about rising sea levels. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Napier mayoral front-runners front up

10 Sep, 2019 9:00am
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Kirsten Wise and Chris Tremain discuss the issues. Made with funding on NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Hastings mayoralty race a clash of styles

19 Aug, 2019 10:31am
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Hastings mayoralty candidate interviews. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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A good place to get sick: The swimming hole that's more of a sewer

16 Aug, 2019 2:51pm
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Napier council slammed for Ahuriri Estuary pollution. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Haumoana beach houses continued their battle with the sea last week.

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Swell hammers Hawke's Bay but surfers happy

28 Jul, 2019 12:34pm
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Hawke's Bay swell hammers the coast. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Wattie's peachy keen American students planting something different

18 Jul, 2019 11:42am
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Riparian planting not the usual crop for Wattie's. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Transgender student sparks sporting inclusiveness

15 Jul, 2019 1:54pm
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Transgender request sparks inclusiveness. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Local Focus: Exporting perfect beauty is big business

5 Jul, 2019 10:21pm
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From Holland, Lithuania and Hawke's Bay to the world. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Napier Port to be partly sold but locals get priority

3 Jul, 2019 10:16am
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Locals get priority in Napier Port NZX float. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Opera House renovation hits high notes

30 Jun, 2019 2:36pm
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Intricate tile renovation echoes craftsman of old. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Horticultural producers in the US lost 90 per cent of production because if this small bug. Photo / supplied.

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The bug that could spell disaster for all our growing industries

19 Jun, 2019 9:00am
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Brown marmorated stink bug is a major threat. Made with funding from NZ ON Air.

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Local Focus: Book sale's final chapter

7 Jun, 2019 6:15am
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William Colenso College's final book sale. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Parkvale School centenary a friendship celebration

6 Jun, 2019 11:31am
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Parkvale School Centenary Celebrations. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Hawke's Bay's best office is on a stream

2 Jun, 2019 6:18am
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Hawke's Bay's unique weed boats are ugly but effective. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Hours of concentration and not a screen in sight

29 May, 2019 4:00pm
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Chess is part of the maths curriculum overseas. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Hawke's Bay Marathon has record numbers for sunny skies

18 May, 2019 9:02pm
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Hawke's Bay Marathon a sunny success. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Ducking out of rugby 'what we're into'

16 May, 2019 5:55pm
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Premier rugby team defaults a game to go duck shooting. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

HAWKE'S BAY TODAY

Local Focus: Halfway to paradise for tree-planting project

13 May, 2019 2:03pm
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The Maraetotara River is now half fenced. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

As the Hawke's Bay Trails expand a direct commuting route between Napier and Hasting becomes more likely.

HAWKE'S BAY TODAY

Local Focus: Exciting extensions to Napier-Hastings cyclepath coming

9 May, 2019 9:29am
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Cyclepaths extended but commuters have to wait. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Napier hard rock band Black Smoke Trigger, from left, Josh Coyle-Te Maro on drums, Dan Fulton on bass guitar, Charlie Wallace on guitar, Josh

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From high school dropout, to music success

4 May, 2019 6:00am
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From broken fold-out couch to millionaire's mansion. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Songs of war and love at Hastings Dawn Service

25 Apr, 2019 1:03pm
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Songs of love and war at Hastings Dawn Service. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

BUSINESS

Local Focus: Hawke's Bay's craft beer hot on wine's heels

24 Apr, 2019 10:00am
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Craft beer is increasing its popularity in Hawke's Bay. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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Local Focus: Bringing vibrancy back to the heart of Hastings

18 Apr, 2019 6:29am
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Hastings is investing in a vibrancy project. Made with funding from NZ On Air.