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What happens when the tap shuts?
Stuart Nash, wearing his hat as Economic and Regional Development Minister, announced this week that almost $181 million in Provincial Growth Fund monies have flowed to Hawke’s Bay through March 2021. Another $91 million awaits our four territorial councils as ‘better off’ funding…
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Cellular Memory: Elizabeth Thomson
Hastings City Art Gallery 201 Eastbourne Street East, Hastings, Hawke's Bay'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist […]
Farmers Market
Hawke's Bay Showgrounds Kenilworth Road, HastingsDelight in a shopping event of taste sensations at one of New Zealand’s oldest and largest traditional Farmers’ Markets. The Hawke's Bay Farmers' Market offers a complete shopping experience. Discover […]
French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's BayThe legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new historical drama from writer/director Fred Cavayé, based on Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s celebrated, multi Molière Award-winning […]
Environment
HB buying EVs
The Government just reported that sales of EVs (pure and hybrid) are surging in New Zealand … and Hawke’s Bay is no exception. Said Transport Minister Michael Wood: “Since the scheme…
Wings and Wildlife – July
This month’s Wings and Wildlife, prepared by Jessica Maxwell, features: Catherine Reeves sharing some wonderful photos of Waipātiki Beach; a man-made landslide in Tainui Reserve causes significant damage; volunteers doing great…
Support for critically-endangered Kākābeak
A bid to save the genetic diversity of wild kākābeak has won a $5,000 grant from Biodiversity Hawke’s Bay. With its bright-red flowers shaped like a parrot’s beak, kākābeak (also…
On a mission to green our cities
If you drive down Queen Street West in Hastings, adjacent to Countdown, you’ll see three newly-planted trees on the supermarket’s carpark boundary. These trees are the result of persistence from…
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Culture
Cathedral Photo and Art Gallery
There’s a new kid on the block on the north end of Hastings Street. Cathedral Photo and Art Gallery this week opened its doors to the Napier art market. The area around…
Local writers selected as fiction finalists
Two Havelock North writers have drawn on their own family histories to write books that are now finalists in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Mary-Anne…
Love Letters
The human brain is primed from birth to preferentially perceive faces – the survival drive to orientate towards the people that might keep us alive. Later, when literacy is achieved,…
Well stewed
Long nights, crisp days and the smell of wood smoke are indications a hot, substantial meal is very much in season. With that in mind I’d like to acknowledge the…