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Virtual reality forklift cadetship lands 37 graduates jobs
Breakthrough Hawke's Bay programme sees 95 per cent of graduates find long-term employment
Redundancies possible as Esk Valley Meats moves
Award-winning sausage maker moving into Onekawa premises of parent company Bay Cusine.
'Atmospheric rivers' coincided with Napier floods - research
'Rivers in the sky' didn't trigger Napier flood, but did help cause heavy rainfall.
Can an orchard army of students save fruit-picking season?
If Jacinda Ardern can't solve Hawke's Bay's labour shortage, perhaps students can.
Meatworks mentor: Veteran boner retiring after 50 years
"I'd say to them, take your time, just watch me do half a dozen, have a go."
Clive River mouth closes causing flooding
Floods sparked by Clive River's low flow as autumn arrives.
Beneficiaries in seasonal work set to keep more money
Beneficiaries given greater incentive to work - will it sooth seasonal worker shortage?
Silver Fern Farms pulling out of contract with Hawke's Bay's Graeme Lowe Tannery
Union describes move as a big blow to the Lowe Corp-owned tannery.
RSE workers arrive in Hawke's Bay
Over 150 RSE workers from Samoa will start picking apples in Hawke's Bay this week.
Excellence of fruitgrowers celebrated at awards night
Service to the industry, innovation and graduating horticulture students celebrated.
65 new seasonal jobs in Hawke's Bay
Cedenco want seasonal workers from March to October at their expanded Hastings factory.
Pacific pickers arrive in quarantine
"We're going to keep plugging away, because if we don't, we won't pick the crop."
Fatal Hawke's Bay quad bike crash latest in 'devastating' trend
Farming leader laments "more than our fair share" of fatal rural accidents.
Council chair says Māori are right to push for more control of freshwater
Rex Graham says Ngāi Tahu claim makes sense given historical freshwater failings.