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As anyone who has seen them on court when they are in seriously "let's have fun" mode will tell you, the Harlem Globetrotters cannot fail to make you smile.

News

Scooting in with slam dunk for Kenzie

For a good proportion of sheep and beef farmers, the light at the end of the tunnel has, for some time, been the headlight of a train heading towards them.

Rural

Light at the end of the tunnel for sheep and beef

Hawke's Bay's world champion rower Thomas Jenkins couldn't have given his mother more on her 60th birthday than he did on Saturday night.

Sport

Rowing: Jenkins' win a treat for mum

He's cooked for Stevie Wonder, U2, Simply Red and Jimmy Barnes ... and he's shared his culinary secrets on New Zealand TV.

Recipes

One pot cook keeps it simple (+recipes)

A boatbuilding business started in Pandora just six years ago has won New Zealand's top boat show award, the second time in a row that the award has come to Napier.

Business

Top award docks in Bay again

Years ago, when I was just starting out in this business, I attended a snazzy wine tasting event in Auckland. I was desperately trying to look professional while struggling to hold my laughably large handbag, my pen, my notebook, my dictaphone and my wine glass.

Lifestyle

Wine: New digs for old pros

Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.

Lifestyle

Gardening: Chop trees before they're a problem

Write a regular column on sustainability and it's natural to discuss climate-change facts and issues from time to time.

Rural

Big bucks back misinformation

News

Drive to get golf top of tourist wish list

Almost lost this week amidst the turmoil of resigning MPs, shonky gambling deals and the quashing of any reform of MMP was that man-made emissions have driven the density of atmospheric particulate matter through the 400ppm threshold.

Opinion

Bruce Bisset: Wake up, we're facing doom

Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate.

Lifestyle

Hot deals: Tuscany, Vietnam, Sydney cruise, Beijing

You've only been moving for three minutes but already the lactic acid has started sequential muscular paralysis.

Sport

Bay team pumped for Aussie workouts

Different codes have adopted different approaches to what levels of "encouragement" will be tolerated. One soccer club in Auckland has sent a letter home to parents inviting them to come to their children's matches but to refrain from any verbal support

Sport

Motivation in tough love sevens star

He is working at a travel agency in Palmerston North right now but there are no flight points for guessing where Jamie How would rather be at the drop of a sunhat.

Sport

Cricket: How eyeing return to Black Caps

It was easy to detect more than a hint of family rivalry as Hawke's Bay western rider Stephanie Milligan and her horse Whizzarita completed a training session last night.

Sport

Equestrian: Milligan to follow mum on world stage

About 1000 South Island meat farmers met in Gore last month to discuss the real problems the industry is facing around farming profitabily and sustainabily.

Rural

The status quo leads to peasantry

Harry is determined to exact his revenge and get the better of his boss. To pull it off he'll need the help of a very unlikely party.

Entertainment

Movie review: Gambit (+trailer)

If you're serious about collecting wines of rarity and significance, then you could do worse than cast your eye over the offerings at the 22nd Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' Charity Fine Wine Auction this Queen's Birthday weekend.

Lifestyle

Wine: Rare drops up for auction

A former Bay of Plenty farmer's dream of reopening the Gisborne to Napier railway line as an adventure tourism cycle track yesterday emerged from the mist of scepticism as a possible frontrunner in a new economic future for Wairoa.

News

Venture may be on right track

Students from six Hawke's Bay schools chomped their way through thousands of apples on Friday, to help secure a world record for the most people taking a bite simultaneously.

News

17,000 apples a day

Today's youth have unprecedented influence and control over their world and are a potential powerhouse in the coming Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election.

Opinion

Jacoby Poulain: Youth must realise power of vote

While a Bubbles and Bites celebrity debate on council amalgamation might sound like an evening of frivolity, in Wairoa polls show the majority see the issue as a David and Goliath battle.

News

Fierce debate over Bay unitary authority

John Bird's memories of his son Dominic's early days as a rugby player flooded back yesterday morning.

Sport

Rugby: Bird takes first step on World Cup path

The collapse of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last month drew worldwide attention to the fashion industry's production processes.

Lifestyle

Fashion: Buy less, buy ethical

Gardening off the smell of an oily rag should not just be about practical edibles like cabbage, caulis and carrots. For fun, why not try your hand at growing giant pumpkins?

Lifestyle

Oily Rag: The key to growing giants

A Hawke's Bay taekwondo teacher is set to release a new book this year in an effort to have the sport inducted into the Special Olympics.

News

Special Olympics aim pushed

They came they saw, they stomped grapes with their feet.

News

Radio pair comb Hawke's Bay for the weird and wonderful

In the world of systems and transitional play, it seems words of a more prosaic nature should resonate with any basketball fans contemplating the path of apathy.

Sport

Basketball: Wildcat's back among Hawks

There was a collective "crunch" across New Zealand yesterday as Kiwi kids tried to break a world record for the most people biting into an apple simultaneously.

News

Crunch time as record challenged

Thailand, the Kingdom of Smiles, continues to woo the world with its magnetic tropical beach resorts and big city thrills.

Lifestyle

Travel: Bargains in Bangkok

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