The values of homes in flood-hit areas of Wairoa have dropped up to 50% since 2021. New rating valuations prepared by ...

But we're in a better place than before and we should be very "proud as a country", the Emergency Management Minister says.

"Obviously we've had a pandemic then we've had a cyclone, then flooding .. so it's been probably the hardest few years ever to be in business particularly in Wairoa, but across Hawke's Bay with ...

Local media reported that some residents in Hawke's Bay had to swim through ... the sand when the beach is flooding. We must act now." Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand just two weeks after ...

Napier City councillor Maxine Boag and Central Hawke's Bay councillor Tim Aitken have confirmed they were standing down, ...