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No-one's asking why a runner with no feet should be promoting footwear.

Opinion

Bruce Bisset: Come to census over vital stats

It was 31 years ago yesterday, on February 20, 1982, while working in Wellington that I was sent down to the Basin Reserve to do the colour story on what was the capital city's first big one-day international cricket match.

Sport

Cricket: Taylor made return to form

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken the east coast of the North Island and been followed by a group of smaller quakes overnight.

News

Quakes shake east coast of North Island

The 25th Geon Art Deco Weekend has been hailed a great success.

News

Art Deco weekend a swinging success

Due to a lack of space for expansion from surrounding swamps, Napier, in its early days, looked at ways to reclaim land for settlement.

News

Michael Fowler speaks at Napier Cathedral

Due to a lack of space for expansion from surrounding swamps, Napier - in its early days, looked at ways to reclaim land for settlement. One of those areas where land was reclaimed was Napier South, and in 1908 Napier South formed its own town board, which later merged with the Napier Borough Council in 1915.

Opinion

Historic Hawke's Bay: Art Deco houses

A quick glance up the shopping precinct of Napier on any day this week reveals a lot of people are wearing silly hats.

Opinion

Editorial: Those hats don't look so silly now

Over the next five days it is effectively all hands to the pumps at the Napier Art Deco Centre ...

News

Napier set to talk the walk

Demolition of the Waipukurau's old Mills Honda building on Ruataniwha St has begun.

News

Demolition starts on quake risk building

The old Caledonian Hotel in Hastings Street, Napier (pictured after the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake), is another heritage building set for demolition early this year.

Opinion

Historic Hawke's Bay: Grand survivor soon to fall

The day started with an earthquake. The shudder could have been caused by a passing truck, except there were no roads nearby. It stopped, and then started again, stronger this time.

News

Carers take birds under their wing

The 25th Art Deco Weekend is set to spark into Silver Jubilee life from next Thursday.

News

Buildings a magic drawcard for visitors

New Napier City community resilience and communications manager Marcus Hayes-Jones, originally from England, had been on the job just a few weeks when he heard a tsunami might be on the way this week.

News

Preparing for natural disaster

WAS STRIKER Sean Lovemore going to miss the game tomorrow on the foundation of four cumulative yellow cards?

Sport

Bay turn up heat against Dragons

The plucky city of Napier confirms the adage that every cloud has a silver lining. Napier's darkest and deadliest days, the 1931 earthquake, profoundly altered the future course of the city and the region.

Lifestyle

Travel: Enjoy Napier's fine art of Deco

A major blow for the protection of Napier's world-famed architectural heritage has been struck with plans to save the city's Central Post Office with a revitalised retail and office development.

News

Plan saves threatened post office

The tsunami watch issued yesterday had little effect on Hawke's Bay residents, with some precautions taken by the port but most people still enjoying the evening beach weather.

News

Tsunami alert: Wave of interest

The devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of 93 people in Hastings in 1931 was remembered at a special commemoration service in the city centre on Saturday.

News

Deadly Bay earthquake remembered

Less than 100km off the coast of Hawke's Bay is a deep-water trench that could be the site of a potential megathrust earthquake similar to the 2011 Japan earthquake, says seismologist Kevin Furlong.

News

Quake may hit trench, says expert

This is my maternal grandfather, Neville "Hugh" Eagle Smith (1911-1969) standing outside the corner of Heretaunga Street East and Russell Street weeks after the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake.

Opinion

Historic Hawke's Bay: Hawke's Bay earthquake stories

Now it's official: Toyota is once again the world's top carmaker. Toyota Motors released its tally of global sales for last year of 9.748 million vehicles

Motoring

Toyota top of pops for global sales

A farmer and war veteran killed in a house fire near Gisborne last week was a quiet achiever and well-known member of the Te Karaka community.

News

War veteran who died in fire survived Bay quake

New Zealand Post could return to the historic Napier Post Office building it vacated almost seven months ago because of an earthquake risk assessment.

News

NZ Post may move back to historic site

One of the more unusual photos of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake is this photo of Dr William Moore's leaning Upoko Poito private hospital on Napier's Marine Parade.

Opinion

Historic Hawke's Bay: Criminals turn into rescuers

It's a grim fact, and realisation, that following Friday's jailing of a child-abusing sex-offender who is now almost 85 years old, two of the oldest people now in New Zealand jails, both for possibly the most despicable type of crimes, were both sentenced in courts in Napier.

Opinion

Editorial: Inquiry long time coming

Possibly the biggest relocation of retailers in Napier in the 82 years since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake will be completed by the end of this week.

News

Mass of retailers on the move

A bar which rose from the ashes to turn inner Napier nightlife on its ear after a major fire in 1991 has been shut down with confusion over whether or when it will reopen.

News

Future uncertain for Cri Bar in Napier

A 97-year-old building thought to have been New Zealand's first soldiers' club is being restored as much as possible to its original state.

News

Historic building restored for modern apartments

The earliest Christian missionaries in Hawke's Bay were Protestant William Colenso (1844) and Catholic French priests Father Lampila and Brothers Monchalin and Florentin (1851), forefathers of the Mission Estate Winery.

News

Historic Hawke's Bay: Early pillar of the community

The word is that Christchurch has registered more than 11,000 tremors since the devastating earthquake two years ago.

Sport

Girls thrive despite quake

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