Heretaunga Collected News Links - to 30 June 2021

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Waiaroha, a key project in Hastings Drinking Water Strategy, has received Resource Consent and construction work will start immediately. The water treatment, storage and education facility in central Hastings is the largest and final project in the... Keep Reading

Hastings District Council’s Heretaunga Takoto Noa Māori standing committee will this week make a recommendation to Council on whether or not it should introduce Māori wards.  The Local Electoral (Māori wards and Māori constituencies) Amen... Keep Reading

Napier City Council Mayor Kirsten Wise and council staff will be available to answer constituents' Long Term Plan 2021-31 questions in a live chat session.  The community consultation period began on April 12 and and will close at 5pm on Wedn... Keep Reading

The doors are once again open for both Takitimu Seafood shops in Hawke's Bay, just over 24 hours after Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated announced an 'administration oversight' had forced its closure. The company, which has a processing plant and ret... Keep Reading

Six community groups have received funding from Biodiversity Hawke’s Bay for projects ranging from riparian planting to pest and possum control. Biodiversity Hawke’s Bay launched the contestable fund for the first time earlier this year,... Keep Reading

Levi Armstrong was born in a Mongrel Mob family, but he decided to change his life. Now he is an inspirational community leader, an academic scholar and a researcher at EIT. Brought up in poverty and steeped in gang culture, Levi chose to educate h... Keep Reading

Napier Port, in partnership with mana whenua hapū of Ahuriri, has launched the country's first Marine Cultural Health Programme to monitor and protect the health of the Ahuriri marine environment as the port builds its new 6 Wharf project. An Aotear... Keep Reading

A large wetland is being constructed in Tukipo, Central Hawke’s Bay to investigate how wetlands can be used to remove nitrogen and other contaminants from farm run-off and improve the health of surrounding waterways. The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council ... Keep Reading

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Ngāti Pukenga ki Manaia celebrated one of its best and brightest at the weekend with Supreme Court judge Sir Joe Williams's investiture. Keep Reading

For years Bridge Pā locals have watched their rivers dry up, with one reduced to a dust bowl during summer. Keep Reading

Judge questions actions of trust, which were 'not best practice, by a long shot'. Keep Reading

Company diverted the main channel of one of Hawke's Bay's largest rivers. Keep Reading

The papakāinga will be built like a pā where people live together and work together. Keep Reading

Hawke's Bay Māori want their dried-up streams replenished and there's hope that a new provincial development funding will help to develop a water storage sol... Keep Reading

Te Tāwharau is being set up for people who are at risk of mental health and addiction crises in Hawke’s Bay. Keep Reading

Light aircraft from across New Zealand will descend on Ruatoria this weekend for what is being hailed as the world's first te reo Maori fly-in aviation event. Ruatoria Aero Club will host the fly-in ... Keep Reading

Culture to the fore at graduation. Keep Reading

Community mourns the "huge loss of a rangatira at the height of her leadership". Keep Reading

Long-term plans for a new regional park in Ahuriri will go to community consultation. Keep Reading

In that time, barely any hapū or tribes have been successful in having their customary rights recognised. Keep Reading

Waimarama Māori Hemp Collective's first hemp block is harvested, putting land to good use. Keep Reading

Plans are afoot for two housing developments on council land. Keep Reading

..[M]y tīpuna heard what he said, and from that moment it’s just torn us apart. And it hurt, it really does, and it still does hurt now.” Two Maori... Keep Reading