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The Chair of the Board of Hawke’s Bay’s new Regional Economic Development Agency (HBREDA), Alasdair MacLeod, is pleased to welcome aboard HBREDA’s inaugural CEO, Lucy Laitinen. Laitinen comes from a six year stint as CEO of Anglican Care Waiapu, ...

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Mental health has been treated like the "poor cousin" in the healthcare system for too long, Shayne Walker, one of the Ashburn Clinic’s four new...

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Stark report by BDO questions the wisdom of planting pines for carbon cash. Some local industry leaders say it missed the mark.

Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King A protest was held in May in the city against the councils decision. The local Taiwhenua said current laws were in breach of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Crowns Treaty obligations to ensure Māori had adequate and proportionate representation at a local government level. The five claimants are from the local iwi authority Te Taiwhenua o te Whanganui ā Orotū - Tamati Cairns, Shayne Walker, Tania Eden, Matthew Mullany, Alayna Hokianga and Ho...

From gin to nutrition: New Zealand’s plum-gin maker receives cash tonic to fund nutrition research A New Zealand firm producing gin from Damson plums is expanding into the functional health foods space and has received funding to research and develop nutrition products based on its high amounts of anthocyanins. Hawke’s Bay-based company Foot Steps Limited recently received a development grant of NZ$50k (US$35k) from the High-Value Nutrition (HVN) National Science...

A development grant for $50,000 has been awarded by the High-Value Nutrition Ko Ngā Kai Whai Painga National Science Challenge to Foot Steps Limited in Karamu, Hastings. The grant will support a six-month project to explore the bioactive compounds ...