Why does BayBuzz devote half of this magazine to freshwater issues? Because the environmental, recreational, cultural and economic values of Hawke’s Bay are totally intertwined in our rivers, and we are about to make hugely important decisions...Read more
Keith Newman finds coastal campaigner Larry Dallimore as persistent as the current that perpetually sweeps gravel northward around Hawke’s Bay. With millions of public dollars and a valuable coastline at stake, why aren’t councils responding to...Read more
‘Heretaunga te Haaro o te Kaahu ki Tuawhakarere’ A hundred pathways, life giving waters and beauty that can only be seen through the eye of a hawk. Hawke’s Bay Mãori whakatauki (or proverb) Keith Newman asks whether the vision from the eye...Read more
General Status of Tukituki Catchment 1. What is HBRC’s position on the current – or benchmark – environmental health of the Tukituki? Do environmentalists or other government assessments agree with that assessment? 2. What standards...Read more
Mãori students are failing in our education system. Or reframed, the system is failing Mãori students. Which is it? A new approach in Hawke’s Bay suggests an answer. Two decades ago a black teenager in London was murdered by a group of white...Read more
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council wants the region to grow and prosper, while its clean natural environment is protected. To achieve this it needs to take some bold steps as well as taking an integrated approach to everything it does within the region...Read more
Weekend of creativity The HBS Bank Weekend of Wonderful Workshops is the second such event to be staged, being held at Keirunga Arts and Crafts Society in Puflett Road from 30 March – 2 April. This year sees a doubling in the number of arts and...Read more
