Alexa Cook

Coroner Erin Woolley is investigating the deaths of 19 people who died in 2023 as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods.

A heavy deluge in the early hours of Tuesday morning caught Central Hawke's Bay residents by surprise, flooding roads and buildings, downing trees and turning a valley into an 'ocean'.

A rural community in Central Hawke's Bay is reeling, after flooding wiped out fencing, culverts, winter crops, roads and even animals.

A group of Hawke's Bay growers is looking at whether it could take over the McCain vegetable processing factory and save the industry.

'It’s a big business, but there is a lot of will out there.'

Forest & Bird has filed judicial review proceedings in the High Court challenging a decision to extend consents for the controversial Tukituki Water Storage Project.

Forest & Bird has filed judicial review proceedings challenging a decision to extend consents for the controversial Tukituki Water Storage Project.

There is no evidence homes damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle were undervalued, an Ombudsman investigation into the buyout process has found.

International food company McCain has turned down a request from Hawke's Bay mayors asking for a pause on the factory's closure while growers try to find a solution for a possible take over

The building project took just eight months because the 19 modules were constructed in Wellington then trucked to the site and pieced together.