Latest from HBT - Opinion

Wyn Drabble: Is sport better from the grandstand or an armchair?

OPINION: What are the relative merits of watching sport on TV or being live at the event?

John Jenkins: Prestissimo’s win adds to breeding windfall for Hastings owner

OPINION: Three-year-old recorded a win at only her second start.

Docuseries reveals shocking twists in Peter Beckett case

REVIEW: Peter Beckett insists his wife's drowning was an accident.

Opinion: The jacket I've owned for 48 years shows the bonds we form with aged apparel

'My tattered old gloves will probably be hidden amongst the agapanthus.'

Trapped in a metal torture tube: The horrors of 60s bus rides

OPINION: Bad bus dream reveals the struggles of travelling in uncomfortable buses.

Ewan McGregor: The advance of the pine army threatens NZ's rural landscape

OPINION: Urgent call for Wellington to lead control of pine expansion.

Historic Hawke's Bay: Frederick Bennett's journey to uniting Māori and Pākehā

OPINION: Bennett became the first Māori Bishop in 1928, uniting Māori and Pākehā in faith.

Missed signals spark a frightening road incident - Linda Hall

OPINION: Wisdom about being a road user.

Historic Hawke's Bay: The origins of the Veronica Sunbay

Glass windows were originally used between the colonnades.

Kia Rite - Time to act: Four lanes good, six lanes better

OPINION: Pippa McKelvie Sebileau on what an expressway of the future might look like.

Linda Hall: Don't you dare call me 'dear'

OPINION: You might as well say "you have grey hair, therefore you are old and doddery".

I have to stop phubbing everyone - including my other half

OPINION: I try to stay focused, but my attention is waning.

Wyn Drabble: 'Please press 5 if you would like to know whether you are important to us'

OPINION: Choose from the following options to receive my first sentence of advice.

Wyn Drabble: I'm not one to resist a rest

OPINION: My naps are never more than 15-20 minutes long.

Craig Cooper: Haere ra, Hawke's Bay

If the opportunity arose, I would probably have lived in Hastings St.